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Nine-year-old girl wins city award for helping African orphans – Leduc City Council presented Jayden Porter with award on June 27, 2011
Leduc City Council will present a nine-year-old girl with a Leduc Achievement Award tonight (June 27) for her determined fundraising commitment to Home of Hope, a group of orphanages in Rwanda, Kenya and India.
Jayden Porter began collecting bottles for orphans in Kenya in February of this year after learning that babies are routinely abandoned at a Nairobi dump. She has already donated more than $1,000 to Home of Home in Kenya from her personal bottle drives throughout Leduc.
A YouTube video of Jayden entitled ‘Jayden’s Heart’ has helped elevate public awareness of her mission to help African orphans. [See the video below.]
Home of Hope was established in Rwanda in 2006 by Red Deer’s Word of Life Church. The church (and its affiliate organizations including City Life Christian Centre in Leduc) now sponsors more than 800 African orphans, mostly in Rwanda. Home of Hope says that there are 613,000 orphans in Rwanda under the age of 14 and an estimated 100,000 new orphans every year.
Leduc Bottle Depot (6117-46 A Street, Leduc) is now accepting bottle donations on behalf of Jayden’s Home of Hope campaign. The bottles will be put into a fund for Jayden to collect on a regular basis.
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