Just Like My Child Fills The Love Bucket on Mother’s Day!

May 8th, 2011 Posted in Gifts, Heart, The Love Bucket®

 

Vivian Glyck started Just Like My Child Foundation because she couldn’t believe that children in Africa, who are just like her son, were living in such extremely dangerous and vulnerable conditions.

This year, Just Like My Child Foundation is filling the love bucket of children in Uganda with school supplies.

Micheal Koenigs and his wife Vivian. Mike recognizes and supports the www.JustLikeMyChild.org Foundation started by Vivian Glyck

I learned of Just Like My Child a few years ago. One of the ways a man gets to be a hero at home is to recognize the essence, the inner passion, of his special lady. Recognition is one of the 7 Rings of Desire of Her Love Bucket. Mike’s wife, Vivian, had a passion to create a charity foundation Just Like My Child, to help less-fortunate children in Uganda.

Mike Koenigs and Frank Kern made it their business to assist the Just Like My Child foundation with donations from various seminars and training. Mike and Frank took proceeds from the sales and donated 100% to the Just Like My Child foundation.

Mike Koenigs continues to support the Just Like My Child Foundation. He is a hero who recognizes his wife Vivian’s essential passion, and taking action to contribute and participate in something that truly makes a beneficial difference in so many lives.

Along this line, you know how every time you go to a conference, you’re given a mass-produced tote bag with the logo of the sponsoring organization? Well, this year, Traffic Geyser, Mike Koenigs company, did something a little different — and it created a BIG change.

Exhibiting it’s commitment to global consciousness, Traffic Geyser purchased conference bags for its Social Media Marketing Machines event from women at the Asili Hospital in Uganda who are on AIDS treatment and ready to come back to life! Each bag is handmade, and through this income-generating project women are sending their children to school and supporting their families. Each bag represents a woman whose heavy load has been lifted just a little bit by being given the opportunity to create her own solutions.

TheMessenger Bag was just the beginning. Traffic Geyser’s Social Media Marketing Machines event, held March 12 and 13th, 2011,  helped to raise enough money for Just Like My Child Foundation to purchase a desperately-needed new vehicle for Asili Hospital in Uganda, invest in small businesses for over 500 families recovering from AIDS, and helped to fund badly-needed medical equipment!

Entrepreneurs on this side of the world helping entrepreneurs on the other side of the world to be self-sustaining is one of the fastest ways to alleviate poverty. Thank you, Traffic Geyser and Traffic Geyser customers for your support!

Note from Vivian’s April Newsletter: Flash forward five years,  Just Like My Child, has among other things, funded a new hospital, micro-enterprise programs, and the construction of six new schools. Everything we do is a HAND UP, NEVER A HAND OUT.

Just after Mother’s Day, on May 13th, for the first time, my 8-year-old boy will be coming with me to Uganda (it’s my 13th visit). He is really excited, and also pretty nervous since he’s learned a little too much about malaria. Don’t worry, we’ll keep him malaria-free   

Many children in Uganda go to school with NO school supplies, and have to sit in the dirt because there are no desks or chairs. Even though we’ve built many school buildings, the Ugandan government does not have the funding to equip the schools with the most basic necessities like books, chairs, desks, tables, pencils, markers, chalk and crayons.

Watch this touching Mother’s Day story, "How Much Do You Love Me?"
This powerful tribute only takes 3 minutes to watch but the message will last a lifetime.    Turn up your speakers and enjoy!

Make a donation today to www.JustLikeMyChild.org and feel good about yourself!

Dedicated to Enhancing Your Love (and S*x!) Life

Sherrie Rose
The Love Linguist

P.S. Have a Wonderful Mother’s Day!

UPDATE JUST BEFORE FATHER’S DAY June 17, 2011

FROM:  Vivian Glyck Founder, Executive Director, Just Like My Child Foundation Some people thought I was crazy. But I did it anyway because I knew we’d be fine. Despite an Ebola scare and political instability, I took my husband, Mike, and my 8-year-old son to Uganda to visit Just Like My Child’s projects. My son raised money and delivered nearly $3000 worth of school supplies to orphans and Just Like My Child’s schools. He also ate fried crickets and had his first sighting of giraffes on the beautiful Ugandan savannah. But that’s a story for another time! My husband, an entrepreneur, was so blown away by how we’re helping to create thousands of entrepreneurs on the other side of the world, that he created this video: A Hand UP, NEVER a Hand Out. And he’s helped us to raise thousands of dollars to give people the hope, dignity, and freedom of economic independence.

We got so inspired when we were in Uganda about our sustainable programs that we’re calling our annual gala: A Hand Up, NEVER a Hand Out!

A Hand Up, NEVER a Hand Out! Join us for our fifth annual birthday celebration for Just Like My Child at the historic Don Room at the El Cortez in San Diego, CA

Thursday, October 13th 2011 6pm – 11pm

Register for our early-bird ticket prices here: www.JustLikeMyChild.org/party We are in the last phases of working to secure OUTSTANDING celebrity entertainment to be announced shortly. Ticket prices will go up August 1! Our capacity this year is strictly limited. Tickets will sell out rapidly. Please join us! It will mean the world to us and so many others a world away.

 

Help fill a love bucket and give a hand up to this worthy cause.