An overdue update

This was our year end update that was sent out in January. We appologize for the tardiness of the post.

Hello friends and Happy New Year. Thank you all for your well wishes. We have received some e-mails and questions regarding our projects, so we want to send you this project update to keep you all up to speed.

The good news!
Our friends at the Amun Shea School in El Salvador have entered their second year and have expanded their program to include grades K-4. As an initial aid package, Focal Point Aid will purchase a full set of textbooks for all the students at Amun Shea including Math, Science, Social Studies, and Language. We will also fund the building of 36 new desks and chairs for the school. Our gifts to the school may also include other schools supplies as well as musical instruments. We will deliver these goods this spring.

Coffee Bay, South Africa

Our contact with the community in Coffee Bay, South Africa has been harder to maintain over these past few months. However, we are confident that we will be able to travel back sometime this summer to deliver an aid package to the Bekisizwe and Madekeni schools similar to the one we are donating to El Salvador. With it, we will continue the initial planning for new school buildings.

The economy and Focal Point Aid

As you all know it has been a hard year for charities and non-profits. Many organizations have suffered greatly and others have been forced to completely shut their doors. The tragedy of this situation is that as the stability of our economy waivers, the people of the world with the greatest needs suffer the most.

When we created Focal Point Aid a year ago, we knew that many charity groups are weighed down by the burden of administrative costs like salaries and office space. Thankfully, since these costs are not part of who we are, we have not been forced to abandon our work. However, the state of the economy will make it a little bit harder for us to complete our current projects in the timeframe we first had envisioned. Your help is needed more than ever. We except donations through our website or by mail.

Thank You

It has been quite a year for Focal Point Aid. We traveled half way round the world and back, endured tough economic times, suffered a few tropical diseases and here we are, still standing. We look forward to the successes and challenges of our second year.
Keep in touch. We have several events on the horizon.

Thanks again for your support,

Joe, John, Pete and Heather