National Make a Difference Day

Posted on behalf of FTGA

National Make A Difference Day is on October 27th this year. The Cincinnati Friends Through Guatemalan Adoption (FTGA) group has participated in Make A Difference Day for the last 3 years - we were even selected as one of Ohio's "Top 40 Projects" in 2005. For the last three years we have done work projects....this year we are trying something new --- we are planning to encourage FTGA members to patronize a Guatemalan business on Make A Difference Day. We have asked our members to let us know of any Guatemalan businesses in the greater Cincinnati area and online. But we thought, why stop with just FTGA?

So we wanted to also ask you to send information for any Guatemalan owned or operated businesses you know of--either in your local area or online. Please email the name of the business, a description of the type of business, the address, contact info, and website if there is one. Send the information to ftgamakeadifferenceday2007@yahoo.com and we will add your information to our list.We will post closer to Make a Difference Day a comprehensive list of all the businesses on Guatadopt as well as our website (www.ftga.net) and we will also post a reporting link on our website for everyone who participates to report back their efforts so we can see just what a collective difference we have made!

I know in years to come it will matter to our son that we have made a conscious effort to stay connected to the people of his birth country. I invite all of you to support this project as one way of staying connected and making a difference.

Sonya Zumbiel
FTGA Donations Coordinator

"Never doubt a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Meade