Many people have asked recently "What do you need at New Day?" So I thought I would post a blog of some of our biggest needs and upcoming projects!
1) Our biggest, most pressing need is a NEW VEHICLE. In just over a month last year, we were able to raise enough to money to purchase a van. In fact, we purchased a 29 seater bus that is being shipped to Zambia from Japan! It shipped yesterday and should arrive in 30 days. It is an older model but has very low mileage because it has been used just as a hotel/airport shuttle bus for years. We are so excited to get it and to be able to take our kids on field trips and use it to help transport our volunteer teams!
Meanwhile, New Day has one good, running vehicle and another vehicle that is not safe to drive off of the land. It is used mainly for hauling bricks/stones/sand for building projects. That leaves one vehicle for the 10 of us who live full-time at New Day! When we are split up, like this week when the Wilcoxes are in Lusaka, whoever is left at New Day has no transportation.
While the new bus will help with this, it will not be an ideal vehicle for one family's trip to Lusaka or for our weekly supply trips to Choma.
So we are looking to purchase a new 4wd truck, so that New Day has two good, running vehicles for our staff, along with a large van for our kids and volunteer teams.
2) Our second most pressing need right now is the purchase of SEVEN hot water heaters! Now that we have electricity, we want to take hot showers! And we assume that those of you coming this summer would like to as well :)
3) We are always building at New Day, and we have just begun a 4 room classroom block. Construction adds tremendously to our usual monthly expenses.
These are just some ideas of things that are needed here at New Day. If you feel led to give to any of the above, you can give on paypal at our website www.newdayorphanage.org, or you can mail a check to:
New Day Orphanage
3112 West Avenue R
Temple, TX 76504
New Day says THANK YOU! :)
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