Christmas Campaign to end the Year Well

Dear friends,

I am so grateful for your support of WorldHope Corps this year.

We’ve had a hard year economically, yet managed to do so much good with few resources.

We only raised $70k so far this year toward our 100k annual budget, and had to spend all of our reserve funds to fulfill our program and project commitments.

Today begins our Year-End campaign to raise needed funds to end the year without debt, and solicit sufficient pledges for the New Year to support WorldHope Corps Malawi and WorldHope Corps Uganda projects in 2018.

We need exactly $9,112 to pay all remaining expenses of our leadership consultations, community development trainings, and women’s empowerment conferences in Malawi and Uganda this year.

See my mission update for a summary of these projects: http://michael-christensen.blogspot.com

I beg you, my friends and colleagues, not to forget the poor this season; and I invite you to increase your support of WorldHope Corps this year—just a little if you can!

Please help us with a year-end gift of any amount.

You can make an online donation right here: www.WorldHopeCorps.org

Or send a check to WorldHope Corps, PO Box 7688, San Diego, CA. 92167

Thank you so much!

Michael J. Christensen, Founding Director

WorldHope Corps, Inc.

worldhopecorps@gmail.com

P.S. Please contact me directly if you'd like to learn how to become a donor advisor of a specific project in the New Year. For a list of qualified projects, please see our Mission Catalogue here: https://www.northwindinstitute.org/worldhopecorps

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