Katrina Update

Global Operations and Development/Giving Children Hope is working with the Church of the King in New Orleans to help residents there recover and get their lives back to normal.

The Church of the King bought and is renovating a multi-purpose facility in downtown New Orleans on historic St. Charles Ave. This facility will house numerous classrooms, a cafe, a 1500 seat sanctuary and the Dream Center. A computer lab will be available for all to use, job training programs will be offered, and a sports area will be set up. The Dream Center will help residents with the Build-a-Block program, designed to help rebuild homes. It will offer rehabilitation and counseling services and free medical clinics to offer health care through mobile medical units.

The heart of the project will be the kitchen in the Dream Center which will feed many people so desperately in need of a complete meal. The first church service is targeted for January 2007, but there is a lot to do before then. We need your help.

John Ditty, Founder and President of Giving Children Hope, just received a letter of thanks from Stephen Robinson, Senior Pastor of Church of the King in New Orleans.

“I wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you for the gracious gift you have made to help rebuild New Orleans through our City Campus and Dream Center. Your contribution of the excellent stainless steel kitchen equipment is simply amazing. We commit to putting it to good use and serving the people of this region.”

The letter went on to remind us of the enormity of the scope of the rebuilding still to be done in New Orleans and to ask us to continue our partnership with them.

With your generous gifts, we can continue to be a ray of sunshine breaking through the dark clouds of despair that remain in New Orleans.

Please send your gift of $50 or more to us today to help complete and equip the Dream Center kitchen. We would like to encourage you to contact us to arrange a visit to the Dream Center upon its completion to enjoy a tasteful meal. Together we can help bring hope to the hopeless men, women and children in New Orleans.

Please click on the donation button now and you will enter a secure web page. How many lives would you like to change forever?