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T-SHIRTS – TWICE

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July 2016
Last year, a local artist painted a lovely mural on the outside wall of our orphanage. I drove by every day and took some pictures. A few months later my friend Arjan van der Linde told me about a Dutch school that wanted to donate T-shirts. I thought about the mural and decided to make the T-shirts one of a kind. I sent a picture of a section of the mural and asked to have it printed on the T-shirts. Additional donations from Arjan’s friends helped to add many more. To top it off, Arjan and his lovely family traveled all the way to Ecuador to give every child his/her own T-shirt.

An ocean of smiles and a tornado of hugs and kisses followed. Today (on our weekly English class ) most kids were not there. The caregivers said they were down the street to wave at the president of Ecuador who was passing by on his tour of the coast. I missed the guy by a few minutes, but my heart skipped a beat when I saw the children proudly wearing our T-shirts for the president. I keep pinching myself to be so lucky to have found these incredible little survivors.

Waiting for the the president of Ecuador, who will be passing by on his visit to the coast.

July 2018

When something works out really well once, why not do it twice ? But even better….
Arjan van der Linde decided to print a few hundred T-shirts with the logo from his band’s live album and donated the proceeds to our latest project at the orphanage. He even printed a T-shirt for EVERY child, and decided to deliver them in person again. How’s that for an encore ?

One year old girl looking pretty happy in red.

 

Arjan and his wife Carla are co-founders of the MJM foundation.  ” We do what we can to  help these beautiful children. Their bright smiles are our best reward”.