2006
This holiday season,
volunteers from The Earth Harmony Foundation
celebrated the spirit of giving by packing toys, paint supplies, crayons, coloring books, reading books, small musical instruments, dolls, stuffed animals, pillows, and sticker kits into our foundation's green
'Backpacks of Love'
for the Inner Circle Foster Agency annual 2006 Holiday Party on Friday, Dec. 8, 2006.
The Agency's foster families care for 76 children in the LA County Foster Care System.
The Earth Harmony Foundation invites you to join us in
The 'Backpacks
of Love' Project
For displaced and orphaned children and foster children around the world
Healing little hearts, by sharing hope and harmony, through the arts.
The Earth Harmony Foundation invites you
to join us in
The 'Backpacks
of Love' Project.
Healing little hearts, by sharing hope and harmony, through the arts.
The following categories are proposed for the Backpacks of Love Project:
1. Backpacks of Love For Transitioning Foster Children:
A Backpack of Love will be given to each child that enters the L.A. County Foster
Care System, and to each child that must bemoved to a new foster care placement.
The Backpack will contain age appropriate and gender appropriate ‘comfort’
items, toys books, games, in order to ssist during the difficult transition
period.
2. Backpacks of Love Containing Holiday
Gifts for L.A. County Foster Children and Underprivileged Children through the
WIC Program:
The Earth Harmony Foundation has begun this program by collecting donations
and giving out toys at the Christmas party for the Valley WIC, as well as performing
holiday songs for the children during this event. Additionally, we performed
at LA City Holiday Programs where presents were given to community children.
3. Backpacks of Love Literacy and Arts Program:
Every LA County Social Worker will be given a Backpack for each child in his
or her caseload and will assemble age appropriate books, art supplies, crayons,
paints, small crafts etc.
4. Backpacks of Love Music Program:
The Earth Harmony Foundation will be funding mobile music programs as an outreach
program available to service schools that have lost their funding for music
programs. Backpacks containing a variety of instruments, including shakers,
triangle, harmonica, flutes, tambourine, etc. which will be donated to these
schools.
Each backpack will also contain a songbook/coloring book relating to Earth Stewardship,
and an accompanying CD of fun, upbeat songs about cherishing the Earth to sing
along with and play their instruments. Concerts can be given at the gift giving
parties, as well.
5. Backpacks of Love for L.A. County Homeless
Families
Will be filled with hygiene items such as toothpaste, soap, and non-perishable
food items, as well as books, games, toys, and instruments.
6. Backpacks of Love for Puna children on
the Big Island of Hawaii
Here 70 percent of the families live below the poverty line. Many of the children
do not have enough food to eat at home. These backpacks will be filled with
school items, and nonperishable food items, and age appropriate games, books,
and art supplies, etc.
7. Backpacks of Love for Orphans Around
the World.
The Earth Harmony Foundation has already begun it’s work with The Rainforest
Preservation Foundation, which supports an orphanage in the Amazon Rainforest.
We will be continuing to send Backpacks of Love there as well as to other orphanages
around the world.
2005
Photos below are from the 2005 Christmas Party for the City of LA, Wendy Greuel's District, where The Earth Harmony Foundation contributed to the performance with Dov's electric violin playing of Holiday songs.
Dear Friends of the Earth Harmony Foundation,
Please join with us in sending backpacks of love to children.
Please make your donation check payable
to the
Earth Harmony Foundation, (Backpack of Love Project)
10061 Riverside Drive, Suite #760
Toluca Lake, CA 91602, USA
What can your contribution do?
Art supplies are being purchased from the 99-cent store, with 10 items going
into every backpack. An assortment of healing music is being included to the
director of the orphanages for use during art time.
Your donation of $10.00 fills one backpack with art supplies.
$50 fills 5 backpacks
$100 fills 10 backpacks
$200 fills 20 backpacks
400 dollars fills 40 backpacks
$800 dollars fills $80 backpacks
$1,000 fills 100 backpacks
Let’s do it together now, I am
counting on you. Lets spread a healing wave of global harmony and hope across
the planet.
We plan to extend the project and create a backpack of love project for adult
victims, which would include personal hygiene items and other items, and then
reach other areas in the world where people are in need.
Previously, at the Earth Summit Global Forum in 1992, we had the privilege of
distributing food and clothing and participated in a large party with music
and dancing, giving hope and sharing our hearts with the street children of
Rio De Janiero, and adopted two of them for a week, while performing at local
schools.
Later, we worked in partnership with Roxanne Kremer and the International Society
for the Preservation of the Tropical Rainforest and successfully solicited in
kind donations, which were sent to an orphanage in Peru, South America.
We also were able to save the life of a young girl with a tumor by assisting in funding her medical procedures.
It is all about helping the children of the world, one child at a time.
I am counting on your support.
Yours in service to the children of the earth,
Judi Amber Chase
The Entire Team of volunteers on the International Children’s Rights Committee