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Looking Ahead: The Emiliani Project 2015
This year promises to be a year that furthers the mission of The Emiliani Project in helping the children in Colombia, and here at home in Southern California. Key initiatives include raising awareness and funds for the Project through multiple Spring festivals in various communities around San Diego and Orange County, where we will sell coffee, tell our story and help people connect with the work we are doing. In the summer, we will again be traveling to various parishes in dioceses around the country to speak to the need in Colombia, and how the Emiliani Project is fulfilling the charism of its patron St. Jerome Emiliani to reach these kids.
In August we will make our third Mission Trip to Medellin, and are taking applications now for volunteers that want to travel to work with the children or to help in the construction of the home. Additionally, thanks to the generosity of our many benefactors, we are continuing each week to make progress on the construction of the Hogar (the home) in Colombia where we hope to have classrooms and living quarters completed by the end of the year. As some of you may know, on a recent trip to Colombia our founders were recognized by Padre Villalobos for their leadership and tireless efforts on behalf of the kids. We receive the blessing on our work, and share it with you all.
Appeal for Volunteers
As we start this new year, we are actively recruiting volunteers to help forward the work and mission of the Emiliani Project. The Emiliani Project is a 100% volunteer-based initiative, and one of the pillars of our organization is to offer people the opportunity to work with us, to directly benefit the children. There are a number of different ways in which we need your help. First, we need your help to spread the word about our work, and the opportunities we are creating for children both in Colombia as well as here in the US. We need volunteers to help staff our outreach events, where we meet the public, have the opportunity to tell our story, and sample and sell our coffee.
We need volunteers to help prepare and pack our coffee, as we source the beans from California, have them roasted locally, and pack them ourselves in our own Emiliani Project branded packaging. We need volunteers to help work in Colombia along-side our volunteer staff. We need volunteers to support us with various ad-hoc projects which come up from time to time. As you can see – The Emiliani Project takes on much and has accomplished much, but we can’t do any of it without your help. Please consider one of our key service areas, and please sign up at the Join Us page on our website to volunteer. Have questions? Reach us at info@emilianiproject.org. You will be richly blessed – and will be a blessing to others.
Mission Trip August 2015
As mentioned above, we are already planning for our next Mission Trip in August 1-9 2015. If you are interested in seeing the work of The Emiliani Project first hand, and experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to South America and see both the city of Medellin and work with those in need, please send us an email to missions@emilianiproject.org so we can send you a brief flyer about the August trip, and include you in a list of those who will receive information packets that will better explain what the trip will entail, and more importantly, what it will offer to the volunteers who attend.