Dear Friends,
On 17-20 July, 15 year old Kyle G. Baleva will join the International Four-Day Marches in Nijmegen. He will join about 45,000 participants and hike 40 kilometers per day for a total of 160 kms in four days.

Kyle G. Baleva, 2011 Nijmegen International 4-Day March (MN archive photo)
Kyle will be participating in the 96th edition of the "Walk of the World" in Nijmegen for the 4th time in a row. He seeks sponsors to raise much needed money for orphaned children in the Philippines. The amount collected will buy books and other educational materials, supplement food allowances and some medicines for children who were orphaned because their parents have disappeared or died due to various human rights violations.
The Children's Rehabilitation Center's (CRC) "A Hand for an Orphan" program has been supported through this project for three years now. The CRC gives psycho-social support to children and their families to help them overcome the trauma they have experienced. They also visit different far-flung areas of the country where there are intensive military operations and there are high incidences of human rights violations.
In 2009, the money collected during the walk were able to support six orphans with food and educational allowances for one year. In 2010, the CRC was able to organize a peace camp where 40 orphans aged 3 to 16 were able to take part in. Last year (2011), the CRC was not only able to support some very basic needs of 6 young orphans, they were also able to organize another peace camp with about 100 participants coming from different parts of the country. Every year, Kyle trains hard to participate in the "Vierdaagse Nijmegen" because through these efforts, he wishes to give more orphans more opportunities for healing.
Would you like to help Kyle help other children? You can:
> donate 10 Euros per day (40 Euros for 4 days) OR
> donate a fixed amount
Account name: Stichting voor Filippijnse Kinderen Account number: 4278866, please indicate: "Sponsor Kyle"
For international transfers (from banks outside of the Netherlands): IBAN: NL98INGB0004278866 BIC: INGBNL2A
For any message or inquiries, please contact us at our email:
kyleswalk@filipinochildren.net. We would appreciate receiving your email addresses as well so that we can acknowledge your donation as soon as they appear in our bank account records, and send you the terminal report of the project as well.
We hope you can also forward and spread this message to your friends and networks. Thank you in advance!
Best regards, Angie M. Gonzales Chairperson Stichting voor Filippijnse Kinderen For more information and updates: please visit our website:
www.filipinochildren.net