Mission Update

While in Ghana I learned some information that necessitated changing the scope of our mission at this point. Instead of focusing on providing funds for a specific foster home, the Foundation is going to focus our attentions on helping foster homes with specific projects, like initiating electricity service or providing mosquito nets, and establishing educational scholarships for children in foster care so they can break free of the cycle of poverty.

We will also conduct donation drives for specific items that can be hand delivered to Ghana. Foremost, the children need vitamins. Without refrigeration the children do not have access to many nutrients that we take for granted in the United States. A daily dose of Flintstones can help stave of scurvy, anemia, eyesight problems, skin conditions, and other issues due to poor nutrition. If you or your organization are interested in doing a vitamin drive, please contact us to discuss details. Your support can help these children have a healthier tomorrow!

Funds for the Fostered

This organization is the brain child of two sets of adoptive parents who spent several months in Ghana finalizing the immigration paperwork for their children. We have been deeply moved and inspired by all that we witnessed during our adoption journey. Being people who believe that we should be judged by our actions and not just our words, we have begun this organization to help the many children who will never have a forever family but still deserve a full childhood and education.

I am one of those parents, and 9 weeks after arriving for a one month trip, I am still here. Many of my friends have wondered when I am going to be able to gather all the needed paperwork to travel with my children back to the states, and there have been many prayers and wishes that we will get to travel on a specific date. So to have a little fun with our extended stay while raising funds for the children's foster home, I am announcing the Fihankra Foundation's first fundraiser! Money from the fundraiser will help provide juice (to provide vitamin C), rice, and medication (specifically deworming medication to combat the current outbreak of ring worm in the home) to the children in the foster home.

If you are interested in helping with this fundraiser, please leave a comment at the bottom of this post with the date that you believe I will arrive back in California with my two children and be willing to donate at least $25 to the Fihankra Foundation through Hopscotch Adoptions (a licensed 501(c) non-profit). More than one person can select a given date and no dates should be selected before Thursday, January 28th as that is the first realistic date we could leave Ghana. Those who select the correct date (or closest to it) that my children and I arrive back in California will receive a FREE 16x24 float wrap of the winner's choice of a Moments To Memories Photography Africa gallery piece -- a $250 value! Please visit http://www.momentstomemoriesphotography.net to view photographs from the Africa gallery.

I am hoping that we can raise at least another $250 with this fundraiser. Who's in???

The Faces That Drive Our Mission

Starting from the basics

Welcome to The Fihankra Foundation!

Fihankra is an adrinka symbol representing safety and security, specifically in the home. That is the goal of our organization -- to help improve the health and welfare of children in Ghana, creating a sense of security and safety for their growth.

The first focus of the Foundation is to help a specific foster home. The foster home is run by a single family that has opened their doors to over TWENTY children whom they support without outside assistance. The organization has gathered $250 in donations to purchase window screens and mosquito nets for the home in the efforts to reduce the risk of malaria and reduce the sores that the children currently experience from bug bites and poor air circulation in the home. Pictures of delivery of these goods will be posted soon.

Other goals of the Fihankra Foundation include child sponsorship, education scholarships, and developing projects that will help the foster home become self-sufficient to pay for rice and electricity for the month. Details on these goals will be outlined in future posts.

For now, we leave you with the face of a single child whom your donations can help in a very real way.

Check back soon to learn more about our organization and projects to help the children of Ghana!