Dear Friends and Supporters around the world: The time for hoopla is now gone as we have completed the major construction project at Wat Ban Yoei Sakae Elementary School whose 119 children we have sponsored for the past five years. In mid-July through early August we were able to complete revamp, renovate and rebuild the school to make it more user-friendly. Two fabulous teams of young people from Bouworde Belgium came to assist in the building and teaching at the school. We had originally planned to do ceramic tile floors only for all the classrooms and had pegged an initial budget at 85,000 baht for tiles, cement, sand and tools. The Bouworde group members did some incredible fund raising and ended up contributing a total of 255,000 baht between the two teams. This made it possible to completely reconstruct the abandoned kindergarten building. We stripped it down to the cement slab and steel girders and were able to salvage 80 percent of the roofing tiles, two windows and two doors. Everything else was new. Joining the 18 Belgians were 6 English nursing students from Sheffield Hallam University, a married couple from San Antonio Texas (Harvest Church), a married couple with two adopted Thai boys from Brisbane Australia, a traveling cement finisher from Manchester UK and an American property developer who has been out to help us in the past, his daughter and her boyfriend from Florida. As a result, miracles happened. All of the classrooms were ceramic tiled, freshly painted, window awnings placed above the KG Building above all the windows and doors to keep out the rain, colorful metal awnings purchased and installed for the library and computer room, ceiling tiles added to the KG buildings where three rooms were built, new walls were raised, white boards installed, bathroom facilities renovated, an expanded kitchen created, a meeting room to be used for grade seven, windows, shutters, doors, eight long tables, twenty-four padded chairs, a lot of roofing tiles, we purchased 25 chairs for the KG children, sleeping mats for all the kids in KG, school supplies for kids and teachers, 3 kiddie bikes, sports equipment, a VCR and loads of films and cartoons, a water cooler, the play grounds were leveled, new playground equipment purchased and even 40 quarts of ice cream and boxes of candies and drinks were donated for a party for the children. Former volunteers from Australia and the USA raised the funds so we were able to buy all 119 kids sports uniforms and even tennis shoes. We at TOLO added what we could and drew down what little savings we had accumulated. Donations since August for the orphanage have dropped precipitously. From Texas sources we received 250 dollars in total for the month of August and 700 dollars for September. One donor in Kosovo added an additional 500 dollars and an additional donation from Sweden was received for another 150 dollars. We appreciate every coin that was contributed. We are hopeful people will start collecting coins and consider getting their friends to do the same to help us meet our commitments and basic needs. We wish to call this campaign “Pennies from Heaven.” We know the economy worldwide has been in a tail spin and that many folks have lost their jobs over the past 4 months. We have felt the impact here as well. By the grace of God we are still standing after twelve years. We are all in good health and hopeful. Please continue to pray for us and add something to the coffers to keep it all going here at TOLO if it is within your means.