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3/31/2005
Horizons Foundation Newsletter - March 2005
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- Peru - Video now available thru high speed internet connectionPeru - Slow but steady progress on getting orphanage licensed
- Peru - Progress made on microlending business plan
- Peru - Possessing the land for orphanage expansion
- St Charles, Missouri - we need a DVD duplicator
Pacasmayo, Peru Video now available thru high speed internet connection
The 7+ minute video of what’s happening in Pacasmayo, Peru is now available via this link. Just click on this link, http://www.kkinteractive.com/horizons/. Allow a few seconds to download and you can see the up to date happenings in and around the new orphanage! Thank you Kelly and Christine Kerr!
Pacasmayo, Peru - Slow, steady progress on getting orphanage licensed
Avis Goodhart has just returned to Peru from the USA, and has had several important meetings with governmental officials as she attempts to get the official approvals necessary to open the orphanage. The 'red tape' is very frustrating to her, and many meetings must be held in Lima (about 12 hours away from Pacasmayo by bus), more meetings are required in Trujillo with our attorneys (about 2 hours by car), and more and more meetings with on-site inspectors.
When you see the video, and you realize just how beautiful and well-built the orphanage is, as compared to all the buildings around, you will begin to better understand some of Avis' frustration as to why the government officials just simply won't rush to her aid and immediately approve the necessary license. But, when in Rome, do as the Romans do and so these meetings will continue until the license is received.
Peru - Progress made on microlending business plan
This is our current highest priority project needing funding. Our goal is to fund $7000 every two months during 2005 for this micro finance project. A portion of the profits of this project help support the orphanage built in 2004. This project will generate the funds necessary to perpetually self-support the orphanage within 5 years. Total goal for 2005 -- $42,000. As you know, Horizons Foundation started a charitable foundation in Peru in January 2005. This 501C3 equivalent is named Association Horizons.
IMPORTANT REMINDER: None of the founders of Horizons Foundation, or of Go Ye Ministries receive any salary or other income from funds contributed to these organizations. ALL interest income to be earned by Association Horizons will be recycled to make more micro finance loans in Peru. To date, the founders have contributed all funds necessary to pay for overhead expenses. 100% of any donation given to Horizons Foundation will be spent on the project you designate. If more funds are received for a designated project than are necessary, you will be contacted to see where you would like to direct your funds.
Click here to download a copy of the Association Horizons Business Plan. Click here to download a copy of the Association Horizons Application. We have mentioned that in Peru getting our charitable organization - Association Horizons - approved, is a 12 step process. Each step is a multi-week process. However, we hope to be able to make our first micro loan in May 2005, after receiving governmental approval to do so.
Peru - Possessing the land for orphanage expansion
Avis Goodhart's brother, Fred Miller, and his wife Peggy, have been in charge of the Go Ye Ministries compound during the past three months while Avis has been in the USA. Fred has been very busy. First, building a church building in the nearby city of San Pedro then 'Possessing the Land' that has been donated to Go Ye Ministries by the former mayor of Pacasmayo and his brother.
One unique rule in Peru that has taken us 'gringo's' awhile to assimilate, is the concept of 'Possessing the Land'. This is required before anyone may purchase the land from the government; and since Peru was a socialist country for many years, the government owns most of the land. Fred's second major project during the first quarter of 2005, has been to go to the 30 donated hectares and 'Possess the Land' by starting to have a 90 foot deep well, hand dug and then build a house for a guard to watch the property. Fred calls these 65+ acres 'The Plantation'.
Fred and Peggy write: "Just a few lines to let you know what is going on here in Peru. The land behind the church is still in limbo. We may know something more next week (Peruvian Week - meaning "don't really expect it to get done in one week"). We have been working on the Plantation the last few weeks. The well is at 6 meters (about 19 feet) and we have 10 more meters (about 31 feet) to go. The well is still on schedule to be completed within 45 days." (Note: a deep well for the orphanage is our Priority #3 project for 2005: Fund $15,000 to drill a deep well for irrigation water)
"We have started the first house on the 30 hectare plantation. This house is more for a care taker and guard than a central house. House should be completed in approx. 2 weeks. It is a 3 bedroom, 1 bath with kitchen and living room. The house is constructed of (hand-made adobe) blocks and will have a metal roof. The inside and outside of the house will be a smooth concrete stucco finish."
"Also on the plantation we have lain out and hope to start the construction of a wall 300 meters by 300 meters by 4 meters tall and will be made of adobe (blocks) that will be 9 hectares square or approx. 20 acres. Getting electricity is going to be a big job. We had a meeting yesterday with two structural engineers and one electrical engineer."
"The electrical engineer is in charge of getting electricity from the nearest power pole to the compound, which is approx. 1 mile. His company is donating all technical and physical labor for the job. We just need to supply materials. At this point and time the power lines will be ran underground. We have been looking for tractors for the plantation. Buying a tractor here is completely different than in the US. There are no tractors here; you just pick one out of a book. Once you order it, it takes approx. 4 months to receive it. Next Tuesday we are going to Chiclayo to look at used tractors."
St. Charles, Missouri - we need a DVD duplicator
If you have a DVD duplicator that can do the same job as a Bravo II DVD Publisher - PC that you'd like to donate - we need one. This tool will allow DVD replication at up to 25 disks at a time. Right now, today, our DVD's are being duplicated one at a time. And this turns into a serious time consuming project that could be minimized.
We are hoping that April will bring us more than showers as we plan to purchase a unit like this one unless you might have one that you'd like to donate.
Here's what the manufacturer says about the Bravo II: Bravo II combines fast, automated robotic CD/DVD duplication along with full-color, 4800 dpi direct-to-disc printing - all in one compact, desktop unit. Bravo II is ideal for producing either one at a time, unique discs or jobs of up to 25 identical discs at a time (in standard mode; up to 50 with optional kiosk kit). This model is dual-purpose. It produces CD-Rs at up to 24X as well as DVD+/-Rs at up to 8X in the same drive.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT - YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN
In His Service, Al and Charlotte Lockhart
Horizons Foundation Donations may be sent to:
PO Box 6022
St Charles MO 63302
Al Lockhart
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