Africa Dream Project

 

 

 

Chase attended USC and was a junior when he passed on. One of his roommates, Jason Gilde, approached the foundation last month with a fund raising opportunity that he was very excited about - the Africa Dream Project.

Jason had traveled to Africa and had formed a connection with the children in the Kibera Slum in Nairobi. With a population of over one million people it is one of the largest slums in Africa - and half of these are children. Jason brought these children art supplies and watched with amazement as they created beautiful drawings depicting their "dreams." He brought these pictures home with him and has just recently found a way to share these dreams with others.

Jason has taken these drawings and developed greeting cards that are being sold through fundraising activities at high schools, churches and other organizations. The plan is to take the donations from these card sales and eventually build the first IB HIGH SCHOOL in Kibera.

It is Jason's goal to educate the children of Kibera in their own high school and then have Universities from the United States sponsor select students to eventually return to Kibera to bring the change and relief they so desperately need.

The Chase Edler Humanitarian Foundation is proud to announce the merger with the Africa Dream Project. We are also happy to announce that this Africa Dream greeting card program is available to all interested groups that want to raise funds. In fact, there is an opportunity for the sales organization to retain 10% of the gross sales. If you are interested in receiving more information about how you can get involved with this fund raising project please visit their website: http://www.africadreamproject.org.

Jamaica Project

Chase’s older sister, Elyse, is working on an international project. When Elyse was a senior in high school, she had the opportunity to travel to Jamaica with her high school youth ministry.   While there, they stayed at an Orphanage known as Stone’s Hope Orphanage, which is part of an organization known as Youth With A Mission (YWAM).  YWAM is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Their calling is to know God and to make Him known. When they began in 1960, their main focus was to get youth into short-term mission work and to give them opportunities to reach out in Jesus' name. Today, the focus is still on youth, and to also involve people of almost every age (even many people who choose to spend their "retirement" in active service). Their many ministries fit into three main categories: evangelism, training and mercy ministry. They currently operate in more than 1000 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000.

The base is both a center for people wanting to be missionaries and they get trained there in how to do it, for teachers who want to teach in different nations and then for the community it is a church, a school, an orphanage.

Recently, torrential rains and gusting winds pounded Jamaica as the island received the full brunt of Hurricane Dean  The Orphanage suffered considerable damage due to Hurricane Dean. Chase’s foundation is proud to be supporting repairs to the Stone’s Hope Orphanage. You can support this project through your prayers and donations. Make sure you reference JAMAICA on any donations that you wish to see go directly to this cause.

 

 

 

Ninos de la Luz

 

 One of Chase’s good friends, Jesse Snipes, is the U.S. Administrator for a ministry dedicated to rescuing the street children of Latin America. This organization is committed to the children who are actually living on the streets, abandoned by parents and family, addicted to inhalants and drugs, criminals out of a need for survival, and even rejected by their societies and deemed as a hopeless cause.

 The ministry, called Niños de la Luz (Children of the Light), offers these children much more than just an alternative to the streets; they offer them hope, hope that comes from a God that will not reject them but rather embrace them and give them a hope that they have never had. Their desire is to demonstrate the love of God in three basic ways. First, by meeting children and loving them right where they’re at… on the street. Second, to offer the children a way off the streets by inviting them to their Lighthouse ranch where they live in a Christian family environment, having all their needs cared for. Third, to equip youth at their Life Navigation School, in the Dominican Republic, with the tools they need once they are ready for independence. But most importantly they desire for each one of these children to come to know the unfailing and unfathomable love that God has for them.

 

The Chase Edler Humanitarian Foundation has partnered with Niños de la Luz by sponsoring one of the many boys at their Lighthouse Ranch home in Venezuela. Their sponsorship helps Alejandro and other boys there go to school, be well fed and taken care of, and ultimately to experience a new life that they would have never had.

 

To find out more about Niños de la Luz and their work in Latin America or to sponsor one of the other boys there, please visit their website at www.ninosdelaluz.org.