BOUNTIFUL HARVEST

This organization is where the founder of Ivan & Ivon Charities first received her mandate to help others with education, clean water, malaria nets, and jobs for women in Afikpo, Nigeria. This non-profit is no longer active but they were for many, many years. The founder Grace Akpu, born and raised in Afikpo, was the beautiful person who gave Lilia a love for Africa when she took her to Nigeria. Lilia continues to work toward building water wells in the village to help that situation.

While in Afikpo, in 2000, a small team, including Lilia went to Afikpo for a month and worked alongside the chief and the community to assist in making a small contribution in helping the women become self-sufficient. Lilia’s dream is to go back to Afikpo and build a well. While the team was there, water from the polluted river was used for bathing. Unfortunately, the villagers use the water for everything which is why sickness is inevitable.

Let’s build that well together!

GHANA WELL PROJECT

Water for Tea
“Water for Tea” by Karen D. Caldwell

Take Ten for Tea
A Free Monthly EZine Publication

One of the first lessons they teach in Tea Making 101, is the importance of quality ingredients to creating an excellent tea experience, every time. Whether you are serving a hundred guests for a fundraiser, preparing twelve cups for your Sister Friends or making a single cup for yourself, starting with the BEST can elevate your tea time 200%. But before you start counting your pennies and seeking out the most expensive tea leaves in town, let’s start with a basic, but perhaps the most important element – WATER.

Yes, that’s right water-which is why tea sommeliers recommend tea brewers not use tap water for even your everyday pot of tea. The chemicals and additives in a region’s normal water supply can and will interact with your tea leaves, changing the natural taste of your tea and taking you immediately from superlative to humdrum. Luckily for most of us this is an easy fix. We can install a filter on our faucets or water pitchers or purchase bottled spring water. But for millions more in under-developed, poverty-ridden areas of the world, finding the right water for tea isn’t the issue. Simply finding enough water to sustain life is a constant struggle and finding clean, pure, drinkable water a luxury that most do without.

August 18th’s tea was no exception. Hosted by Lilia Sedano Dardon, of Ivan and Ivon Charities, this fun, elegant, intimate and informative tea took its cue from some of the best elements of Downton Abbey – fabulous attire and atmosphere; delicious food; fascinating storylines; lots of humor and more than a few surprises. Interweaving the serious fundraising subject of the crucial need for wells in Ghana, with the elegant, hospitality of times long past, guests were transported to the elegance of Downton Abbey. Resulting in a fundraiser less like a “brow-beating or begging” for help and more like what one might encounter in an elegant salon in the early 1900’s, where the discussion of important and emerging topics was the “done thing.”

Besides a brief discussion on the organization’s history and proposed projects, the rest of the tea was all Downton Abbey – A live auction, conducted by Steven Arciaga, the treasurer of I&I included jewelry, personal/pampering care items and original signed paintings and serigraphs donated by a well-known local pastor and artist.

Tea was accompanied by strawberry and lemon scones; petite chicken, egg and cucumber sandwiches; and miniature desserts while several of the guests shared their roles and experiences working/volunteering with Ivan and Ivon Charities and the Ghana Well Water Project. The enthusiasm for the project resulted in 100% of the proceeds from the tea, raffle and auction being donated towards the completion of the selected village’s bore well.

TEKNOTROPHEO SCHOOL AND HOME

Philippines-Tekno Mission Outreach

When my husband and I went to Abra de Ilog to help Cris with her mission we were so blessed by all the kids and their dedication IN wanting to know God and improve their education.

To support these kids donate to Ivan & Ivon Charities and mark Tekno Kids in the Memo section of the check to Ivan & Ivon Charities, P.O. Box 1001, Suisun City, CA 94585

Cris
Criselda A. Malicdem
and Tekno kids
Teknotropheo Missions
Contact no. 63-9178061150

GEANCO

GEANCO Foundation has recently built a hospital in Nigeria. They are committed to helping others with medical needs that would have been impossible to change otherwise had it not been for the dedication of the founders.

Ivan & Ivon Charities has been a supporter of GEANCO since its beginning. They started with a gigantic dream and are now known worldwide. They continue to gain recognition for their outreach, experience, and love for Nigeria.

Visit https://www.geanco.org/ for more information.

GARDEN PATH MINISTRIES

We provide food and clothing to low income families, seniors and the homebound in Quail Valley, Menifee and Perris. In the near future GPM will also provide resources to the poor in Hemet, and Sun City. GPM’s mission statement is to educate, equip and encourage people in transition. With each bag of food, GPM includes a Scripture verse that offers encouragement from God’s Word to distressed people.

Garden Path Ministries opens the door to a new way of life. Bible study materials to prisons and detention centers throughout California, Arizona, and South Dakota. To date 10,473 study books have been distributed to inmates.

https://gardenpathministries.org