Today I am working on a piece about Peace.  However, it somehow seems wrong to feel Peace when so many are not…

See this sweet girl right here?  This is my daughter.  Evangeline Delia.  She was born in Guatemala.  She has another mother that loves her and grew her in her stomach for nine months.  Another mother that didn’t feel like she would have enough money to feed, clothe, and house her.  So she made the heart-wrenching decision to place her for adoption with a family that lives in a country where food is plentiful.  No mother should ever have to make that decision.

There were other factors involved in this story but truth is that half of the children in Guatemala right now are chronically malnourished.  There has been a horrific drought recently that is causing a terrible food shortage that is making the situation even worse.

Please, if you can, consider helping in any way possible.  Below is the link for a charity called “Mayan Families.”  They are an organization that I trust completely to take donations and provide desperately needed food straight to Guatemala’s poorest.  With little overhead cost.

I am trusting God right now and anyone who donates to Mayan Families this month I will match your donation up to $500 total. Just e-mail me at webmaster@modernmommyblog.com

As I said on my Facebook page the children in Guatemala need food right now way more than my credit card company needs a check.

There is an awesome lady that I know if only through this great social medium we call the internet that has a heart made of gold.

She, like many of us who have adopted from Guatemala, felt compelled to help the children there.  Infants and children living in orphanages who have no other option.  Unfortunately the government there does very little for these places.  So it takes people like Julia to to really make a difference and give these children a chance.

Right now her organization Global Orphan Team is having a raffle with some awesome prizes.  Here’s where it gets interesting.  Julia has committed to SHAVING HER HAIR OFF if they can reach $6000 in donations by Friday night.  They still have a long way to go so get your butt over to Global Orphan Teams website and click the donate button and make this bold lady bald!  Even if it’s just $5.  Every bit counts.

Be sure to scroll down and check out the pictures she has up so you can see the amazing work she is doing there.

This is a picture from their website that touches my heart the most.

and another one that absolutely makes my heart bleed…

Oh and spread the word!

*photocredit – globalorphanteam