TwitterQueens has chosen Mothers Fighting for Others for its holiday focus.
What does that mean? Rocky Turner explained to me the urgency of their situation.
Mothers Fighting For Others is a tiny group of people that is changing the life of girls living in an orphanage in Kenya. All of the money earned up to this point has gone directly to helping the girls- I will let Jeff, Rocky’s husband, describe their work himself:
No- we aren’t asking you for $1500.
Rocky needs about $500 to cover the transportation costs that will come up as part of their trip. That’s 50 people donating just $10. Easy to do- and I ask every one of you reading this post to please stop reading and click on the donate to MFFO button right next to this. Come back later if you want, but do that while you are thinking of it.
Another thing I am planning on doing is donating my social media status updates on Sunday December 13 to spreading the word about MFFO. I will add the link to the main fundraising page to these informational tweets, and I hope to raise money that way. Remember that: MFFO Day Sunday December 13. Join me in donating your status updates.
This year has been very very hard. Many of my friends are in real estate, and, ironically, many of these friends are wondering where their next house payment is coming from. It’s been that kind of year. Financially, this has been the most difficult year that I have ever faced personally as I have transitioned from real estate (mostly) into another business, augmented my income with teaching, and been overwhelmed with the debt that I faced- and carried- from having gone through my divorce.
But this year has been the best year of my life too. My children are healthy, doing well in and out of school, and my eighteen ear old- who last year was acting out so much I couldn’t predict WHAT was going to happen to him is looking forward to starting college next fall. [Okay- I won't lie. He is kind of looking forward to it and kind of being nudged toward it, but he's going]. I am blessed with new friends. I am so lucky, really.
I can’t wait for Sunday to have a chance to give back. I will be trading my avatar for this one until Sunday. Feel free to join me:
MFFO awareness avatar
Check out Mothers Fighting For Others at the official site.
