Let the countdown begin!

My name is Lindsey Tabor. A week from today I will be wearing a dress. I will not take off this dress for a full year. Three hundred and sixty five days.


 Why am I doing this?


I'm glad you asked. 
It's a fundraiser. A dress-o-thon, if you will. 


The cause?

These are images captured at an orphanage in Central Asia. For safety reasons it's important we don't say more specifically about where, or about who took the pictures. The political climate is very unstable. Orphanages in this part of the world are not anything like the orphanages in the U.S., or, I'm sure, any more stabilized country. These facilities are poor and badly understaffed. Neglect and sometimes hunger are a part of every day life for these kids. They hardly ever receive affection or interaction from adults. What you see in the images above are children getting something that is far to sparse in their lives--love. 


It is hard, however, to meet people's emotional needs if their physical ones aren't met. Money sent directly to these countries for the orphanages rarely trickles down to its intended recipients. Corrupt officials have a way of siphoning it off here and there until there's nothing left. This is where our secret communicant comes in to help us out. 


If you would like to make a donation please email me and I will tell you where to send it and who to make your checks out to, etc. You don't need to send it to me. Once again, for safety reasons, I can't openly post the mailing address, but I will be happy to give it to you in a private email. 


Keep dropping in to read the blog! Updates on the orphanages and our communicant's experiences there will be here, as well as pictures of the dress, and my daily life in uniform. :)


"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:26-27


Thanks for reading.
  --Lindsey