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Volunteers from Corazon a Corazon delivered supplies and provided man power in Haiti in 2004-05, following Hurricane Jeanne.  We're gearing up to go back and are slated to depart in February.

Haiti needs us.  Haiti needs YOU!

In Dalton, Georgia we are collecting supplies - non-perishable food, medical equipment, basic living supplies of all kinds, clothing, and more... please bring items to Med-Now, Inc. - located at 2705 Airport Road, Dalton, Georgia - CLEARLY MARKED "HAITI."

Contact Dr. Steve Foster, Connie Scott, Byron Howard, Gary Crews, or Carol Smith at Med-Now for more information.  Call 706-275-4444 or email matthew7v2@yahoo.com with "HAITI" in your subject line.

Do you have time to volunteer?? Let us know - there are plenty of opportunities!

Two vehicles of volunteers will leave on June 8, and a third vehicle will depart on June 17. The route goes from the U.S. to Mexico, to Guatemala, into Honduras.

The primary goal of this trip will be to help establish a wood shop for injured Moskito Indian divers. We will also delvier supplies that we collect year round at the Corazon a Corazon warehouse.

We are looking for VOLUNTEERS TO GO TO HONDURAS. Several spots are available. For more information email us at corazonacorazon2005@yahoo.com or call 706-218-5194.

ITEMS WE NEED INCLUDE:

BOATS

CHAIN SAWS

SHOP TOOLS

YARD TOOLS 

HAND CARVING TOOLS

CANNED FOOD

Items may be dropped off at MedNow, or at the Corazon a Corazon warehouse (located in back of MedNow) at 2705 Airport Road in Dalton. Corazon a Corazon is a 501c3 organization, so your gifts are tax deductible.

Summer Clothes

Yard Tools

Hand Tools

Fishing Line and Poles

WE NEED TO START * NOW* ON A CHRISTMAS PROJECT WE'RE PLANNING FOR HONDURAS THIS YEAR. FOR THIS, WE ARE CURRENTLY COLLECTING:

Happy Meal Toys

Empty Shoe Boxes

Wrapping Paper

Crayons

New Coloring Books

Small Toys, or anything you think a child would like that will fit in a shoe box.

DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

IF YOU WISH TO HAVE YOUR DONATIONS PICKED UP... IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER... IF YOU'D LIKE A CORAZON A CORAZON REPRESENTATIVE TO SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP... IF YOU WANT TO TOUR OUR WAREHOUSE... OR IF YOU'D JUST LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION, CALL 706-218-5194.

DONATIONS MAY BE DROPPED OFF AT MEDNOW, LOCATED AT 2705 AIRPORT ROAD IN DALTON, GEORGIA. OR MAY BE MAILED TO:

CORAZON A CORAZON, INC.

2705 AIRPORT RD., SUITE 101 

DALTON, GEORGIA 30721

On Saturday night, January 13, 2007 at approximately 10 p.m., we were about 125 miles up the Northern coast of Honduras on board the Corazon Grande (LCM-8) loaded with approximately 50,000 pounds of cargo including 50 P.E.T.s, cement, Coca Colas, drums of oil, gasoline and other general cargo that we were to deliver to the Indians. Our game plan was to travel at about 5 knots through the night and reach a large sand bar at good daylight. This bar is protected by a large lagoon that leads into a river. The bar can only be navigated during daylight hours and is very shallow and can only accomodate special boats such as the LCM. The water is so shallow that the boat has to anchor off shore and be off loaded into a dug out boat. This was our plan that never materialized. 

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Corazon a Corazon, Inc. has finally received 501c3 (Non-Profit) status!

This means the humanitarian organiation is exempt from Federal income tax under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code, and we are now qualified to receive tax deductibel bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under secton 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code.

Or.... you can donate your items and get tax credit!

For more information, drop us a line...


 

For my friends,

Life can be hard, but the bounce one gets from being thrown like a stone against a hard surface can carry you a long way. Who would have thought it, who would have bought it a year ago that the Honduran President, Mel Zelaya, would actually have kept his campaign promise? But he did. The changes in La Moskitia have been little short of astonishing.

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Corazon a Corazon volunteers are now busily boxing up items to send to the Moskito Coast of Honduras at the Med Now Warehouse (located at 2705 Airport Road in Dalton, Georgia). 

 "We are particularly excited about this shipment because it's coming right here at the holiday season," stated Dr. Steve Foster, founder and CEO of Corazon a Corazon.  "Our focus for this year has been to address the needs of the crippled Moskito Indian divers. With this most recent donation by the PET people we will essentially be able to meet the needs of most of the paralyzed divers in the Moskito Coast of Honduras."

The "PET" Dr. Foster refers to stands for "Personal Energy Transportation" wheelchairs.  PET is a non-profit organization that builds all-terrain wheelchairs to benefit men, women and children around the globe that have lost the use of their legs due to land mines, accident, injury or disease.  For more information on the PET Project visit www.giftofmobility.org.

 A truck coming from Florida will deliver 45 PET wheelchairs to the Corazon a Corazon warehouse on December 5.

"Next year we will focus on other communities, but the container going down in December will enable us to complete our focus there," Dr. Foster said. "The pace is finally shifting from diving for lobsters to trapping for lobsters. We're happy to be a part of those changes."

Corazon a Corazon also plans to establish a wood shop for the lobster divers along the Honduran Moskito Coast. (More on this soon!)

In addition to the wheelchairs, other items to be shipped to Honduras on the container include tools, clothing, toys, and shoes.

If you wish to make a tax deductible donation of any of the above mentioned items call 706-218-5194.

Corazon a Corazon Dalton is at this time collecting items to send to Honduras. A container will leave from the MedNow, Inc. (2705 Airport Road) warehouse on the week of December 4. From there, the truck will go on to Gulf Port to board a ship slated to sail on December 11 and to arrive in Puerto Castilla, Honduras on December 15.

Items we seek include, but are not limited to... TOOLS!! Yard tools, hand tools (new or heavily used)... sheets, blankets, pillows, bath towels... cook ware (new or used)... non-perishable foods... toys for the children of the Moskito Coast (new or used)... wheelchairs... canes... walkers... hard candy... 

Donors may drop TAX DEDUCTIBLE items off at MedNow, Inc. (2705 Airport Road) during regular business hours, or call 706-218-5194 for more information - or to volunteer TIME (packing boxes, etc.) for this project.