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We’d like to give you an update on the work RetailROI is doing in Central Honduras with one of our two partners there. Click here to go to our country page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/8fe51777-ce4f-4446-92fc-ee6ada8efb91/Liberia+Update+March+2024.jpg ROI Latest News - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/313628b5-22e7-48c4-8f84-0b9978d49f6f/5-2022+Trip-5.jpg ROI Latest News - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/8bd05c4a-a947-48ad-b203-c837deb70f60/5-2022+Trip-3.jpg ROI Latest News - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/6c693789-323d-4777-bfa6-f6e6645cd49b/mentor1.png ROI Latest News - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/8441f3bd-ab82-4364-a5c7-b54d963b1074/Vocational+School+program+in+Liberia-3.jpg ROI Latest News - 52 New Graduates Thanks To You Last week, 52 young adults graduated from the Vocational School program in Liberia supported by RetailROI. Liberia has an unemployment rate that is as high as 75% due to lack of industry or lack of training. About 5 years ago we partnered with LifeSong to start a vocational training school. Intel and HP had paid for the original K-8 school. That cost $30,000. The construction students in the vocation program along with skilled engineers built an identical building for middle and high school for $10,000! That is just one of the programs. Last week, these students graduated from the program with diplomas in General Construction, Computer Science, Tailoring, Fashion Design and Cosmology...providing a hand up, not a handout. Way to go!!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/0b156dc7-8b25-479e-9171-5a5ae888fef2/Twins+Adopted.jpg ROI Latest News - TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE This just in from our partner Children's Law Center of Washington where RetailROI has helped over the years provide funding to help double and triple the work of getting kids who are identified available for adoption expedited through the court system. Because of your support of RetailROI, we have been able to partner with CLCW and these kids have a forever home. "Just a quick email to share with you our favorite picture from adoptions #560 and 561 in Island County on Monday! Island County is currently the only local county in Washington state still holding adoptions in person, so many of our families -- like this one – prefer to make the drive so that they can have their special day in court to commemorate the special occasion. The two boys in this picture are twins and – because of YOUR HELP – found permanence with the same family. Even better? The girl in dad’s arms is their biological sister… so through the support of Defenders like you, we were able to help all three of these kids remain TOGETHER in the same family forever. THANK YOU. We truly couldn’t do this without each of you." - The Children’s Law Center of Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1629730723075-WQ327F6KQF93KNHDQRGF/Liberia+Images.jpg ROI Latest News - Podcast - Sharing RetialROI’s Greg Buzek on “Zebra’s Your Edge” blog. Doing Well by Doing Good: How You Can Leverage Your Professional Experience for Philanthropic Purposes (According to Someone Who Has) In this exclusive interview, Greg Buzek, founder and president of retail analyst firm IHL Group, reveals how his prolific career has fueled his philanthropic mission with RetailROI, a nonprofit he co-founded to help orphans around the world. Despite the vast differences in their purposes and operating models, charities and corporations can learn a lot from each other – how to structure an organization, reach key audiences or secure funds to support initiatives. Perhaps one of the most prominent commonalities among for-profit and non-profit entities is the influence networking can have on the success of one’s mission. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1628867747366-CUIUW82CTBHYTG5RL112/July+2022+Lifesong+School+Graduates.png ROI Latest News - Celebrating our first graduation ceremony at Lifesong School in Bercy, Haiti There is a lot of negative information in the news about Haiti, but let’s share some great news. On Saturday, July 31, 2021, 26 graduates crossed the stage to become the first-ever graduating class of Lifesong School. These graduates have worked hard and have overcome incredible obstacles in an especially volatile year to reach this point, and we are proud of their willingness and determination to succeed! Thanks to everyone that has donated both monetarily and with support over the years for RetailROI! But a super thank you to Aptos and RetailROI Australia for the continuous and tremendous support in Haiti! Together we can make a HUGE difference. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1619203573819-IMT4WZE6QBZ6S28EWL7M/CFKNC+Socialight.JPG ROI Latest News - Something You Can Do Right From Home to Help Kids in Need Wondering how you can help orphans and vulnerable kids in your own area during COVID or any other time? Take 4 minutes to learn about an easy program called Socialight having an amazing impact in Charlotte with our partner CFK. Click on image to the left to launch the video. It doesn’t take much to have a HUGE impact in your local community… and you can do it from your home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1617741151695-Y1E053FM4XNNSTQA6Y88/2021+Oakridge+Academy+Update.JPG ROI Latest News - 3 College Graduates in South Africa Thanks to You Our first three students who received the Tertiary Education Scholarships graduated during 2020. You might remember that RetailROI gave the seed money for this initiative – Thanks Again!! I am happy to announce that all three ladies are professionally employed. Nancy (BA Communication) is employed at a regional radio station, Tsungi is practicing as a Civil Engineer and Daphne is an accountant at an international accounting firm in Humansdorp. All three ladies are now contributing back into the fund to enable more learners to follow in their footsteps. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1611160494531-DF4VJO3VGLTQEXZ3CPI3/RetailROI+Logo+Kids.JPG ROI Latest News - Retail Orphan Initiative raises $210,000 to help orphans, vulnerable children More than 350 people from the retail industry recently joined together for a virtual fundraiser event by the Retail Orphan Initiative. Retail Orphan Initiative (RetailROI) is a grassroots charitable organization made up of people in the retail industry who use their skillsets, networks, and funding to help the more than 400 million orphaned and vulnerable children. Since inception, RetailROI has helped fund over 200 projects in 27 countries, mobilizing more than $4 million to help over 229,000 children. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1605281376279-O8C1GR2JYZBA73BS8QRL/Lifesong+Haiti-9th+Grade+National+Exam+Passed.png ROI Latest News - 100% Passing Grade We celebrate the 9th grade class of the LifeSong Haiti school that Aptos and so many from RetailROI have been involved with getting built. They shared on November 12, 2020 that 100% of the 9th graders passed the national exam even in the midst of COVID. No one left behind!!! Thank you so much for your support of these kids and RetailROI! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1598298689839-TRNNM28SPZLPF85Z75KG/South+Africa+Global+Seminar.jpg ROI Latest News - Would you like to share your life experience and help kids?! RetailROI has a strong relationship with a series of schools in South Africa ranging from age 3 to college age. In fact, through your contributions and support of SuperSaturday, we have more than 25 children progressing from the projects (townships) to a strong leadership high school experience and a few through college. In fact, in 2019 we had our first graduate from poor pre-school not only graduate from high school, but also college and starting as an accountant post college. The goal is to have a continuum of opportunity - and change family trees. Some of these students are the first in their family to ever graduate high school…you are giving them that opportunity. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1597419444431-ZTB7FNXNFOTKOXY8NV3M/Truckers+Against+Traffing.jpg ROI Latest News - Lives Will Be Saved Because Of This I think it was about 8 years ago that Mark Haney went on his first trip with RetailROI. The goal was to install a Chromebook computer labs among other objectives in Dominican Republic. Not long after that trip Mark decided there was a better way to do these labs and soon he created a non-profit called CtrlAltDelPoverty with Greg Wilborn. They have created an amazing mobile computing lab that is essentially “internet in a box” that can be placed anywhere in the world and provide 1st world educational tools even where there is no power. Along the way, they met Gabrielle Thompson and the team from Free for Life International. Free for Life had always wanted to create a Human Trafficking Prevention Curriculum and were working towards that. Enter in MacLaren Group who met FFL and CtrlAltDelPoverty at our SuperSaturday event who helped with talent and funding and soon not only was there a prevention curriculum, but it was now included as part of every one of the mobile computing labs that are now installed in schools and orphan homes in over 20 counties around the world. Pretty cool, right? read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1597699179162-1673QWN4TGJKW4D6GUPO/Urban+Impact-Peter+Pan+Show+2.bmp.JPG ROI Latest News - Pittsburgh public schools to produce a full-scale elementary musical! Zack and I (Urban Impact) would like to extend our sincerest thanks for the incredible impact the Giving Back Fund (RetailROI) grant made in our lives and the lives of children in our city over the past year. We just wanted to take a moment and let you know what your generosity allowed us to achieve: We worked with one of the Pittsburgh Public schools to produce a full-scale elementary musical. This year, our production was Peter Pan Jr. We believe children are capable of taking on large amounts of responsibility when they are diligently coached, encouraged, and excited about a project. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594390029599-T3E1BR7UL6KKHS742P2P/490-3.jpg ROI Latest News - 497 Children Now Adopted The Children’s Law Center of Washington is a RetailROI partner that expedites new adoptions for children who have been stuck in the foster care system but have new families identified for them. They do this by cutting the red tape in the court system so when an adoptive family is identified and matched, the full adoption can take place much faster rather than having the child stuck in the foster system. RetailROI plays a significant role. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592599486551-EZZ32S01HK82NVS6B0PF/Casita+Copan+Honduras.jpg ROI Latest News - When Retail Meets Philanthropy We want to extend our gratitude to our friends at the Retail Orphan Initiative (Retail ROI) for their support and backing in the last few years. We've been able to accomplish major projects and renovations, as well as continue to build our capacity thanks to their undying support. Check out our latest blog post on the impact that Retail ROI has had on Casita Copan. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1589477258112-IEF2RPSIAYUG09WSDZ90/Haiti+Bercy+School.jpg ROI Latest News - Haiti’s Bercy School Offers Life-Changing Hope for Students (Thanks to Joe Skorupa for writing this) You may have heard Haiti has been grappling with protests and economic hardship, yet despite the challenges, 165 students at the Bercy School continue to attend classes and improve their lives with the gift of life-changing hope. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1589477674532-9RZB2BOG5D7KT4KRPYPT/Free+for+Life.jpg ROI Latest News - Over 1,300 Women and Girls Rescued from Human Trafficking When women and girls are rescued from human trafficking what happens next? They need immediate emergency medical care and provision of basic needs, therapy for overcoming trauma, and assistance for ongoing medical evaluations. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592324424893-C2H40SNDL3CQK8K6V2QN/Kids+Build+Their+Own+School.jpg ROI Latest News - Kids Build Their Own School Kids build their own school addition in Liberia You've all heard the old adage, "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well those words could not be more apropos with the latest update from one our projects in Liberia. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1589477144860-4UMQ14RHQ4OKL0UZKBZR/Haiti+Clinic.jpg ROI Latest News - RetailROI Australia Provides New Clinic in Haiti that Will Serve Thousands Would you believe it was funded by an auction of a “Box of Nothing”?…yep, a new health clinic in Bercy, Haiti was funded by a RetailROI Australia auction that included $87,000 USD donated for a box of air at the Retail Global Trade Show in Gold Coast, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594399571819-0ORTWQ2O2WQ95BU4IFSM/RetailROI.png ROI Latest News - RetailROI Turns 10 Years Old Celebrate with us! RetailROI turns 10 It was at Oracle OpenWorld on September 15, 2008 (the day that Lehman Brothers shut their doors) that the idea of RetailROI was hatched with 6 friends who worked for different companies. We wondered how instead of just competing with each other, what if together the industry could do some good. https://www.retailroi.org/case-studies daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592328620035-XCDJ0IV9ENCEK2RB2SCP/480-boy-no-name.jpg Case Studies - Adoption in the Midst of COVID-19 Good news is always welcome at times like this. Thought you would enjoy this adoption that was completed virtually with the judge. What a neat story. Look at that face…I’m sure his smile brings a smile to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592332751335-SQXIENPT25MQ3H8VTL5Q/Chidren%27s+Law+Center+Adoption.jpg Case Studies - Out of State Care, Into Families It’s a sad fact that a lack of resources can create hurdles that are hard to overcome in any situation. In the case of adoption and foster care, these hurdles can be absolutely devastating, leaving children without permanent caregivers, simply because of the lack of affordable legal services. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592335536218-3GQ30E3A82WBT75QQMKV/Congo+Voice.jpg Case Studies - RetailROI Helps Create Opportunities in Congo The Democratic Republic of Congo was once known as the breadbasket of Africa. Dissected by the Congo River, Congo is home to vast natural resources. Coffee, sugar, tea, cotton, bananas, cocoa, and peanuts all grow well here; and its mountains and hills are filled with copper, gold, diamonds, and cobalt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592336684316-YG09YPVMTXX75W5B549R/Care+for+Children+2.jpg Case Studies - RetailROI partners with Care for Children to move children from orphanage to home. Home – it’s a small word with big connotations, especially if you don’t have one. Na Na was abandoned by her parents as a newborn after it was discovered that she had a cleft palate. Xiao Long, also born with a cleft palate, was surrendered to an orphanage when he was one. Liang Liang has a congenital spinal cord defect and was placed in institutional care before he was three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592331241892-OBCOIHVOZF1LRT4LMAAD/Trezo.png Case Studies - RetailROI and Trezo Bring Hope to Children in Haiti Treasure can mean different things to different people, but the common thread woven through the personal definitions is that treasure is something of great value and worth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592334431402-J36UV6LOAJ4VCIURVWAS/Citizen+Schools.jpg Case Studies - RetailROI Partners with Citizen Schools to Close the Opportunity Gap in the US In many parts of the world, access to education is a primary challenge. In the US, however, access isn’t the problem, lack of connection is – connection to communities, companies, and government and philanthropic resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592335815909-TRRNULAKJD8ZKW7JHJGB/Safe+Families.png Case Studies - RetailROI Helps Safe Families expand the community safety net by providing parents in crisis with mentoring relationships and tangible support. Loss of a job or home. Sudden illness. Domestic abuse. Incarceration. When crisis strikes, many of us have friends and family we can call. But for some families, there is no safety net. As parents are struggling, children are particularly at risk for abuse or neglect. Many of these children end up in foster care, simply because they have no other place to go while mom or dad is coping with the crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592337713385-PU5F23ZYOIF2ONPUA60X/Different+Like+You.jpg Case Studies - RetailROI & SAP Start Mentoring Program in Ohio Newspapers and social media are riddled with stories of problems in schools, childhood bullying, fights, substance abuse, and suicides. Often, the victims in these scenarios are people who are labeled as “different.” Differences in appearance, ethnicity, physical abilities, socioeconomic status... it doesn’t really matter what the differences are. If someone is perceived as different, they can become the targets of hatred and intolerance. https://www.retailroi.org/https/wwwyoutubecom/user/retailroi daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594661876860-ZCY19B9S0AZZ9G84ECJK/Malawi+Video.PNG Videos | Other Media Seeing is Believing or is it Believing is Seeing? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594409883341-5D57UG324X5ZJRLB9O8R/Honduras+Trip+2019.PNG Videos | Other Media - RetailROI Helps Build New School in Myanmar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594411420479-CJD3IJJ5AKTSHVS7DNVG/Haiti+2019.PNG Videos | Other Media - RetailROI in Haiti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594409982333-NR7CY2VG2WSOSFZPZG6Z/Casita+Copans+Trip+2019.PNG Videos | Other Media - 1 Minute Video Update from Honduras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594410310415-RDUQKEOL5J1TC9PVSV64/SS+2020.PNG Videos | Other Media - Welcome to SuperSaturday 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594664855036-NNWNSQ1MIK0QA0NWWO5B/SS+2020+Recap.PNG Videos | Other Media - SuperSaturday 2020 Recap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594410544527-HMLRQ3I4RXXDSNSFIPW2/2020+Trips.PNG Videos | Other Media - 2020 Trips - Join Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594410739906-S4TBJIWM400IGLE202RN/The+Story+of+Nick+Fangano.PNG Videos | Other Media - The Story of Nick Fangano - Thrive in Joy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594665266594-IHT1HM3YLDUI1UQIJOAX/SS+2019+Recap.PNG Videos | Other Media - SuperSaturday 2019 Recap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594411945828-UOCIJWUWTDGJ46T2MK3L/10+Years+RetailROI.PNG Videos | Other Media - RetailROI Celebrates 10 Years https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594412478646-HM2W5YQNV1MGYFK1352R/image-asset.png Videos | Other Media - Escalon Kitchen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594666212092-1SHCNS4W3HLULUALRZPH/Kenya+update.PNG Videos | Other Media - Update from Kenya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594412250354-6MRQ94ROSJDU7MDAJNNC/Haiti+Bercy+Project.PNG Videos | Other Media - Haiti Bercy Project RetailROI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594666492530-JDFXDBPMO5JOG2BGYOYY/RetailROI+%26+CCAI.PNG Videos | Other Media - RetailROI and CCAI Fixing Foster Care From the Inside Out https://www.retailroi.org/united-states daily 0.75 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1589486768462-FYBSPZFJX1GH7FNXDMN7/US+for+Website.gif United States - Population: 314.31 M Total GDP: 15.61 Trillon GDP per person: $50,000 Orphans: 400,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592498913554-IEZMSPS39UCY1ESTJWM8/US+Images.jpg United States - US Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592498962587-DCFN3SBE9JSMAUVVFTWN/US+Images+2.jpg United States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/226be8b8-7604-4f42-a829-1ebd3364cf66/Twins+Adopted.jpg United States - Together We Can Make A Huge Difference This just in from our partner Children's Law Center of Washington where RetailROI has helped over the years provide funding to help double and triple the work of getting kids who are identified available for adoption expedited through the court system. Because of your support of RetailROI, we have been able to partner with CLCW and these kids have a forever home. "Just a quick email to share with you our favorite picture from adoptions #560 and 561 in Island County on Monday! Island County is currently the only local county in Washington state still holding adoptions in person, so many of our families -- like this one – prefer to make the drive so that they can have their special day in court to commemorate the special occasion. The two boys in this picture are twins and – because of YOUR HELP – found permanence with the same family. Even better? The girl in dad’s arms is their biological sister… so through the support of Defenders like you, we were able to help all three of these kids remain TOGETHER in the same family forever. THANK YOU. We truly couldn’t do this without each of you." - The Children’s Law Center of Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1597700485960-9DGP6S5Q3BZ2XZ4OIZ6J/Urban+Impact-Peter+Pan+Show+2.bmp.JPG United States - Pittsburgh public schools to produce a full-scale elementary musical! Zack and I would like to extend our sincerest thanks for the incredible impact the Giving Back Fund (RetailROI) grant made in our lives and the lives of children in our city over the past year. We just wanted to take a moment and let you know what your generosity allowed us to achieve: We worked with one of the Pittsburgh Public schools to produce a full-scale elementary musical. This year, our production was Peter Pan Jr. We believe children are capable of taking on large amounts of responsibility when they are diligently coached, encouraged, and excited about a project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592342039121-GPHF3QRXGDMBDOYCCAO4/480-boy-no-name.jpg United States - Adoption in the Midst of COVID-19 Good news is always welcome at times like this. Thought you would enjoy this adoption that was completed virtually with the judge. What a neat story. Look at that face…I’m sure his smile brings a smile to you. This young boy was adoption 480 since 2012 for our partner Children’s Law Center of Washington. So we celebrate with this new family!!! Really appreciate you all. Thanks so much and stay safe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592341792976-OJDHS508Z7P7MRZSHUDE/Children%27s+Law+2.jpg United States For adoption #269, this was the 2nd time we’d been able to help the mom (standing on the right in the picture. The woman on the left holding the child is her sister) adopt kids that were related to her. The boy in the picture is adoption #269, but back in July of 2015, for our 154th adoption, we helped the same mom adopt the older brother of #269. Keeping kids together while in foster care – especially when with their relatives – is the next best thing to seeing them go home to mom. So #154 and #269 have permanence thanks to you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592341861384-CVOIELCY57AYQI1NNNLL/Chidren%27s+Law+Center+Adoption.jpg United States Similarly, when we did adoption #270, this was the 2nd time we’d helped this wonderful family as well. You can see #270 seated in the judge’s chair… but the boy in dad’s arms? He was adoption #173 back in September of 2015. So again, here are two more kiddos who went into foster care together, but so often can get separated into different homes. But not on our watch! Thanks to the help of the RetailROI and other donors, we were able to help this family provide permanence for kiddos #173 and his baby sister, #270. https://www.retailroi.org/ethiopia daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592344083452-H5HG060FTC5YX18M4ZM8/ethiopia_large_locatornkt.gif Ethiopia - Population: 88.92 Million Total GDP: 38.539 Billion GDP per person: $433 Orphans: 4.6 Million https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594321695575-MQ9UEFU67DKM9EJU4SEI/Ethiopia+3.jpg Ethiopia - Click photo to see pics from various RetailROI Ethiopia Trips https://www.retailroi.org/liberia daily 0.75 2024-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592497855389-0M77ERCNFA1TLJHQAC88/liberia_large_locatornkt.gif Liberia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/8fe51777-ce4f-4446-92fc-ee6ada8efb91/Liberia+Update+March+2024.jpg Liberia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592506877742-RTX5MG2R2BBGDVHGA8X9/Kids+Build+Their+Own+School.jpg Liberia - Kids Build Their Own School Kids build their own school addition in Liberia You've all heard the old adage, "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well those words could not be more apropos with the latest update from one our projects in Liberia. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592506898926-1Z6HJJ4XKCNHA2R5AVTH/Graduation+Day+In+Liberia.jpg Liberia - Graduation Day in Liberia Graduation in Liberia Just a quick story to brighten your day. Recently the RetailROI School built specifically from SuperSaturday sponsorships from Intel and HP held their graduation. First in line in this picture is a special young lady named Weedor that lost her that lost her parents in the Ebola crisis and she was tiny. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592507624050-DFNOF0NWI24OXJ2O6ZO0/Liberia+Images+5.jpg Liberia - RetailROI is on the ground in Liberia in fight against Ebola RetailROI works with on-the-ground partners in fight against Ebola. RetailROI Lifesong Marshall School Case Study read more https://www.retailroi.org/china daily 0.75 2020-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592508829864-0IKENQ16YXEMC0PZAZ1Y/china_large_locator_nkt.png China https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592509586170-XHIWOCV5GKPYIC0A3JDJ/China+Images.png China - Click on image to see more pics from various trips to China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592510538425-KZIRGRCX98LPXWCY33RQ/Care+for+Children+2.jpg China - Care for Children RetailROI partners with Care for Children to move children from orphanage to home. Home – it’s a small word with big connotations, especially if you don’t have one. Na Na was abandoned by her parents as a newborn after it was discovered that she had a cleft palate. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592510437324-C2WOPGOFSMBKGE4TBFKC/China+Images+2.jpg China - 85% of Chinese Orphans Now In Families Due to the unintended consequences of the one-child policy, millions of Chinese children not born physically or mentally perfect were tragically relegated to large institutional orphanages for years. Sadly, we are talking millions and millions of children who were abandoned over the years. read more https://www.retailroi.org/haiti daily 0.75 2021-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592511377373-RO6027GNQWU6VNR5H8TQ/haiti_large_locatornkt.gif Haiti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594232838666-3CWSP9JFG7D1SBKYQYKD/haiti.jpg Haiti - Click photo to see pics from various RetailROI Haiti Trips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1628868278461-9EX0QOENSEEGR3IMTHAX/July+2022+Lifesong+School+Graduates.png Haiti - Celebrating our first graduation ceremony at Lifesong School in Bercy, Haiti There is a lot of negative information in the news about Haiti, but let’s share some great news. On Saturday, July 31, 2021, 26 graduates crossed the stage to become the first-ever graduating class of Lifesong School. These graduates have worked hard and have overcome incredible obstacles in an especially volatile year to reach this point, and we are proud of their willingness and determination to succeed! Thanks to everyone that has donated both monetarily and with support over the years for RetailROI! But a super thank you to Aptos and RetailROI Australia for the continuous and tremendous support in Haiti! Together we can make a HUGE difference. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1605281833346-7DW4CISXJMUJ1CRI8W2H/image-asset.png Haiti - 100% Passing Grade We celebrate the 9th grade class of the LifeSong Haiti school that Aptos and so many from RetailROI have been involved with getting built. They shared on November 12, 2020 that 100% of the 9th graders passed the national exam even in the midst of COVID. No one left behind!!! Thank you so much for your support of these kids and RetailROI! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592511916447-DH9R39SV3MBRFBWBEUYR/Haiti+Clinic.jpg Haiti - RetailROI Australia Provides New Clinic in Haiti that Will Serve Thousands Would you believe it was funded by an auction of a "Box of Nothing"?...yep, a new health clinic in Bercy, Haiti was funded by a RetailROI Australia auction that included $87,000 USD donated for a box of air at the Retail Global Trade Show in Gold Coast, Australia. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592516450146-3DRMUU8SXWREHXFBVFS3/image-asset.jpeg Haiti - ROI Invests in Haiti’s Future by Partnering with The Joseph School On January 12, 2010, a devastating 7.0 earthquake ravaged Haiti, further overwhelming a country already contending with poverty, inadequate infrastructure, poor healthcare, and lack of education. Adding to this calamity is Haiti’s orphan crisis, made worse by the earthquake. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592513291749-0VSY0CNMSETCS2GPXJNO/Haiti+Clinic+2.jpg Haiti - What Haiti Taught Me First, let’s get the elephant out of the room. I was part of a group of five people traveling to Haiti in early July as part of Retail ROI, and yes we were there during the time the troubles in Haiti started. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592512727619-GISFMJ40B07RL8JBQAWI/Haiti+Bercy+School+2.jpg Haiti - Haiti’s Bercy School Offers Life-Changing Hope for Students (Thanks to Joe Skorupa for writing this) You may have heard Haiti has been grappling with protests and economic hardship, yet despite the challenges, 165 students at the Bercy School continue to attend classes and improve their lives with the gift of life-changing hope. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592513112784-GT1445PWTR1VI6RS7NH8/Haiti+Clinic+2.jpg Haiti - Retail Global Does It Again Retail Global raises $55k in auction at their event Kudos once again to Retail Global who at their ecommerce event this week in Las Vegas held a live auction for RetailROI and raised $55,000. This is on top of $150,000AU raised at their event in Australia this past spring. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592516322216-75H7J2FHG0K58XXW5Q7E/Haiti+Image+11.jpg Haiti - New Classrooms at Trezo Last year, during RetailROI’s March Gladness campaign, we raised enough money to build a school in Trezo, Haiti. Here is an update of what is going on in this community. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592516584426-YOG2HS5PH928S196GEYM/image-asset.jpeg Haiti - Time to Celebrate Let’s celebrate. At the close of summer 2017, the first 100 students started school in Haiti! (the first phase of classrooms built: 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grades). see more https://www.retailroi.org/malawi daily 0.75 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592576401480-EDTN6LIZ4Y3VIA4A5DG4/malawi_large_locatornkt.gif Malawi https://www.retailroi.org/uganda daily 0.75 2024-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592580564445-PHETPIAKZU9EKC9I9WNF/ugandankt.gif Uganda & Sudan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592580978493-QZGO5NKPFOHOM36JNU2L/Uganda+Water+Project.jpg Uganda & Sudan - 500 Students Get Clean Water by Greg Buzek James Carney has participated in many community events during his trips to Uganda over the past 14 years, but he has never seen the formal dedication of a well. But thanks to RetailROI he was able to see one this time. In truth, he expected a “well dedication” to be a relatively tame affair – a few school officials, a few student leaders, a formal speech or two, ribbon cutting and photo-op, and away we go. You can imagine his surprise, then, as they drove up to the school with hundreds of students lining the road, cheering, dancing and clapping. “Ekyo kya bulijjo”? Literally in Luganda, “does this happen every day?” He soon learned that the reasons for such celebration went beyond typical Ugandan hospitality for foreign visitors. Namely, the 500 students at this school had been traveling by foot for upwards of 2 hours to fetch water from nearby streams. The water was often contaminated. To make matters worse, the long journeys exposed the students to great physical dangers, ranging from robbery to injury to sexual assault. So a simple $5,000 pump well offers so much to this community. Below is a brief video of the kids singing “Water is Life” Thank you RetailROI and your gift of clean water to our community. As the students sing in this video, “Water is Life!” A small sign of shalom, in a remote village in central Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592580978493-QZGO5NKPFOHOM36JNU2L/Uganda+Water+Project.jpg Uganda & Sudan - 500 Students Get Clean Water by Greg Buzek James Carney has participated in many community events during his trips to Uganda over the past 14 years, but he has never seen the formal dedication of a well. But thanks to RetailROI he was able to see one this time. In truth, he expected a “well dedication” to be a relatively tame affair – a few school officials, a few student leaders, a formal speech or two, ribbon cutting and photo-op, and away we go. You can imagine his surprise, then, as they drove up to the school with hundreds of students lining the road, cheering, dancing and clapping. “Ekyo kya bulijjo”? Literally in Luganda, “does this happen every day?” He soon learned that the reasons for such celebration went beyond typical Ugandan hospitality for foreign visitors. Namely, the 500 students at this school had been traveling by foot for upwards of 2 hours to fetch water from nearby streams. The water was often contaminated. To make matters worse, the long journeys exposed the students to great physical dangers, ranging from robbery to injury to sexual assault. So a simple $5,000 pump well offers so much to this community. Below is a brief video of the kids singing “Water is Life” Thank you RetailROI and your gift of clean water to our community. As the students sing in this video, “Water is Life!” A small sign of shalom, in a remote village in central Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/6a4b4515-4cac-4ae3-a65c-c7704541f8e3/Sedan+Country+Map.png Uganda & Sudan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594651384777-1ONRGR9M2EQD63QZVWF0/Sudan+Images.JPG Uganda & Sudan - Make it stand out Click on Image to see more pictures from Sedan https://www.retailroi.org/honduras daily 0.75 2024-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592585589231-Q1FF4AHQKHFSMVWPEJ91/honduras_large_locatornkt.gif Honduras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594243775479-6BNB3L3XW9TWEJDAK6K4/Honduras+Images+6.jpg Honduras - Click on image to see more pics from various trips to Honduras. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/bdaa3ce5-fe01-48d6-9b46-7c1758ca0e59/Honduras+1.jpg Honduras - Make it stand out RetailROI helps the poor and vulnerable in Central Honduras with ongoing projects Hello RetailROI supporters! We’d like to give you an update on the work RetailROI is doing in Central Honduras with one of our two partners there. Today we will focus on our charity partner COMFE based in La Entrada Honduras. Our association with the leadership of COMFE began on the very first RetailROI Trip in 2011 and after many changes through the years we have kept in touch with the work of their leader, Elvin Cerna, as he supported the poorest of the poor families with food, clothing, health care, and education supplementation. During our 2022 RetailROI trip we visited with Elvin as he distributed food and clothing to people who inhabited the land around the local garbage dump. These families had no means of support except to scrounge what they could as the garbage trucks delivered, truly living off the scraps of others for food, clothing, and shelter. The RetailROI board and key Honduras supporters discussed how we could further support COMFE and in 2023 they applied for a small grant as seed money to begin a health clinic and food pantry on a donated lot in La Entrada to broaden their reach to the community. During our 2023 visit RetailROI VPs Vicki Cantrell and Randy Cucerzan awarded the initial grant to COMFE Director Elvin Cerna as we visited the site of the future COMFE Center. Construction was started on the footings and foundation for the building in late 2023. In 2024 a second grant was applied for by COMFE and awarded to continue the construction of the center and to supplement local donations that had been raised. RetailROI is proud to share that in the coming months the building will be finished and will be utilized to help the local community. Thanks to your support RetailROI and COMFE will help better the lives of hundreds of families in Central Honduras with the new Health Clinic and Food Pantry! Watch for more updates on our Honduras partner charities- next we’ll feature Casita Copan Children’s program. Join RetailROI on a trip in 2024 or 2025 so you can see firsthand the difference we ALL are making for vulnerable children worldwide! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/40f1b293-4433-436c-914d-9d2d98b7eb55/Honduras+2.jpg Honduras - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592597342914-Y2OA0K0774421RCZL7VB/Casita+Copan+Honduras.jpg Honduras - When retail meets philanthropy Thank you!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592590583867-KMH0ZF9Y2CLP18WCPFX0/Honduras+Images+3.jpg Honduras - Shark Tank, Honduras Style Imagine a room buzzing with energy and ideas, excitement and nerves, a room full of budding entrepreneurs, all waiting for a turn to present their business ideas to a panel of retail industry leaders. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592592088757-3QGMWZYO30APVW491MWK/Honduras+Images.jpg Honduras - Hesitation Leads to Gratification I have been encouraged for years to join a RetailROI trip, but never found the time. In the spirit of full disclosure, the idea of traipsing thru the jungle wasn’t that appealing to me, and it was pretty easy to not find the time. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592593280868-2BK0I57WBHB29SLHQXH5/Honduras+Images+4.jpg Honduras - I finally got to visit Escalon – what a journey There are many reasons to go on a RetailROI trip – to help others, to meet colleagues, to use your skills; but perhaps the most compelling reason? It’s “life-changing,” according to Michelle Schooff of SAP. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592590655767-TMI6IXS9XHE0AXSR55OJ/Why+Havent+You+Gone+on+a+Trip+Yet.jpg Honduras - Why Haven’t You Gone on a Trip Yet? I’ve gone to SuperSaturday several times. I’ve heard the stories told by people who have been on a trip. How life changing these trips are. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592591998058-2PSAYB9JAIBYN0X5IVZQ/Third+Times+a+Charm.jpg Honduras - Third Time’s A Charm My 17-year-old daughter, Sydnee, and I just returned from our third trip with the Retail Orphan Initiative to Plan Escalon, a school for orphans and at-risk students in Honduras. It’s hard to believe that each trip seems to be just a little better than the one prior to it. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592593416081-DX0KI6YMY162I8HVB8QU/The+Harvard+of+Honduras.jpg Honduras - Putting your skills and network to use to help kids. Often charities work project to project, never knowing where the funding is going to come from and battling day to day priorities. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592593543333-7GDI38A5TUHPBRJRIYZX/Honduras+Images+5.jpg Honduras - The Real Value of Retail: The Power of A Few to Help Many As you read this post you may experience a slight feeling of sadness, perhaps a little joy, or even a sense of purpose. But one thing I guarantee; whatever your reaction is, it isn’t in the realm of what 35 executives and their families felt during a five day journey to the center of Latin America in mid-July. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592585589231-Q1FF4AHQKHFSMVWPEJ91/honduras_large_locatornkt.gif Honduras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594243775479-6BNB3L3XW9TWEJDAK6K4/Honduras+Images+6.jpg Honduras - Click on image to see more pics from various trips to Honduras. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/bdaa3ce5-fe01-48d6-9b46-7c1758ca0e59/Honduras+1.jpg Honduras - Make it stand out RetailROI helps the poor and vulnerable in Central Honduras with ongoing projects Hello RetailROI supporters! We’d like to give you an update on the work RetailROI is doing in Central Honduras with one of our two partners there. Today we will focus on our charity partner COMFE based in La Entrada Honduras. Our association with the leadership of COMFE began on the very first RetailROI Trip in 2011 and after many changes through the years we have kept in touch with the work of their leader, Elvin Cerna, as he supported the poorest of the poor families with food, clothing, health care, and education supplementation. During our 2022 RetailROI trip we visited with Elvin as he distributed food and clothing to people who inhabited the land around the local garbage dump. These families had no means of support except to scrounge what they could as the garbage trucks delivered, truly living off the scraps of others for food, clothing, and shelter. The RetailROI board and key Honduras supporters discussed how we could further support COMFE and in 2023 they applied for a small grant as seed money to begin a health clinic and food pantry on a donated lot in La Entrada to broaden their reach to the community. During our 2023 visit RetailROI VPs Vicki Cantrell and Randy Cucerzan awarded the initial grant to COMFE Director Elvin Cerna as we visited the site of the future COMFE Center. Construction was started on the footings and foundation for the building in late 2023. In 2024 a second grant was applied for by COMFE and awarded to continue the construction of the center and to supplement local donations that had been raised. RetailROI is proud to share that in the coming months the building will be finished and will be utilized to help the local community. Thanks to your support RetailROI and COMFE will help better the lives of hundreds of families in Central Honduras with the new Health Clinic and Food Pantry! Watch for more updates on our Honduras partner charities- next we’ll feature Casita Copan Children’s program. Join RetailROI on a trip in 2024 or 2025 so you can see firsthand the difference we ALL are making for vulnerable children worldwide! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/40f1b293-4433-436c-914d-9d2d98b7eb55/Honduras+2.jpg Honduras - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592597342914-Y2OA0K0774421RCZL7VB/Casita+Copan+Honduras.jpg Honduras - When retail meets philanthropy Thank you!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592590583867-KMH0ZF9Y2CLP18WCPFX0/Honduras+Images+3.jpg Honduras - Shark Tank, Honduras Style Imagine a room buzzing with energy and ideas, excitement and nerves, a room full of budding entrepreneurs, all waiting for a turn to present their business ideas to a panel of retail industry leaders. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592592088757-3QGMWZYO30APVW491MWK/Honduras+Images.jpg Honduras - Hesitation Leads to Gratification I have been encouraged for years to join a RetailROI trip, but never found the time. In the spirit of full disclosure, the idea of traipsing thru the jungle wasn’t that appealing to me, and it was pretty easy to not find the time. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592593280868-2BK0I57WBHB29SLHQXH5/Honduras+Images+4.jpg Honduras - I finally got to visit Escalon – what a journey There are many reasons to go on a RetailROI trip – to help others, to meet colleagues, to use your skills; but perhaps the most compelling reason? It’s “life-changing,” according to Michelle Schooff of SAP. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592590655767-TMI6IXS9XHE0AXSR55OJ/Why+Havent+You+Gone+on+a+Trip+Yet.jpg Honduras - Why Haven’t You Gone on a Trip Yet? I’ve gone to SuperSaturday several times. I’ve heard the stories told by people who have been on a trip. How life changing these trips are. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592591998058-2PSAYB9JAIBYN0X5IVZQ/Third+Times+a+Charm.jpg Honduras - Third Time’s A Charm My 17-year-old daughter, Sydnee, and I just returned from our third trip with the Retail Orphan Initiative to Plan Escalon, a school for orphans and at-risk students in Honduras. It’s hard to believe that each trip seems to be just a little better than the one prior to it. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592593416081-DX0KI6YMY162I8HVB8QU/The+Harvard+of+Honduras.jpg Honduras - Putting your skills and network to use to help kids. Often charities work project to project, never knowing where the funding is going to come from and battling day to day priorities. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592593543333-7GDI38A5TUHPBRJRIYZX/Honduras+Images+5.jpg Honduras - The Real Value of Retail: The Power of A Few to Help Many As you read this post you may experience a slight feeling of sadness, perhaps a little joy, or even a sense of purpose. But one thing I guarantee; whatever your reaction is, it isn’t in the realm of what 35 executives and their families felt during a five day journey to the center of Latin America in mid-July. https://www.retailroi.org/nepal-india daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592840821251-IHXPHPXO1DJ8PJWEB6RU/nepal_large_locatornkt.gif Nepal | India https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594304489863-N6PYI9ALD3DQ5WMYTO3U/Free+for+Life.PNG Nepal | India - Click on image to see more pics from various trips to Nepal | India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592842398699-Y6828Y4XQ9J2Y14SW51L/Nepal-India+Images.jpg Nepal | India - Over 1,300 Women and Girls Rescued from Human Trafficking Rescuing More Than 1,300 in India When women and girls are rescued from human trafficking what happens next? They need immediate emergency medical care and provision of basic needs, therapy for overcoming trauma, and assistance for ongoing medical evaluations. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592842623964-W07ZBFOICPZ9VLPYBZUI/Over+700+Women+and+Children+Rescued.jpg Nepal | India - Over 700 Women and Children Rescued From Sex Trafficking RetailROI has partnered with Free For Life International for several years on a border monitoring station on the Nepal side of the border between Nepal and India. Here over 600 women and children have been saved from human trafficking during this time. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592843495701-LDC24FPRZNUR069TJUGE/Free+for+Life.PNG Nepal | India - Free for Life Working to End Modern-Day Slavery An estimated 1,000 girls a month are trafficked across the borders of Nepal into India, many through the Krishnanagar border station on the Nepal/India border. Lured with the promise of a job, they often are drugged and put on a bus, only to awaken and find they have been sold to an Indian brothel. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594398333081-BATY7RYX5RY62TC3FX43/Nepal+Trucks.jpg Nepal | India - From Inside an Earthquake – Part 1 The following is a first person account from Suman Sapkota of RetailROI Partner Free for Life Since we started partnering with Free For Life, over 552 children had been rescued from human trafficking. On April 25th, the mission changed as a massive earthquake hit the region…here is his story. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594398434612-VUQPLFE9NCEM8UOOS3VC/Nepal+Food.jpg Nepal | India - From Inside an Earthquake – Part 2 The following is a first person account from Suman Sapkota of RetailROI Partner Free for Life Since we started partnering with Free For Life, over 552 children had been rescued from human trafficking. On April 25th, the mission changed as a massive earthquake hit the region…here is his story. You can read part 1 of this story here: read more https://www.retailroi.org/zambia daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592848839154-10U8BACRPHHA23YNHESP/zambia_large_locatornkt.gif Zambia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594303851071-MVA41QSX40U489A2CB3U/Zambia+Images+6.JPG Zambia - Click on image to see more pics from various trips to Zambia. https://www.retailroi.org/dominican-republic daily 0.75 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592850986950-XAQ5V0H7H36T8IQY9JCW/dr_large_locator.gif Dominican Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594309245266-DD9VX2E4K7CY86GKKRO4/Dominican+Images+9.JPG Dominican Republic - Click on image to see more pics from various trips to the Dominican Republic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1597699762006-4KQA4ZHG5RW0B4D8I898/Truckers+Against+Traffing.jpg Dominican Republic - Lives Will Be Saved Because Of This I think it was about 8 years ago that Mark Haney went on his first trip with RetailROI. The goal was to install a Chromebook computer labs among other objectives in Dominican Republic. Not long after that trip Mark decided there was a better way to do these labs and soon he created a non-profit called CtrlAltDelPoverty with Greg Wilborn. They have created an amazing mobile computing lab that is essentially “internet in a box” that can be placed anywhere in the world and provide 1st world educational tools even where there is no power. Along the way, they met Gabrielle Thompson and the team from Free for Life International. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1594310422856-8ID5E6JPS2ILHJ0Z3CBP/Dominican+Images+2.jpg Dominican Republic - The Positive Impact – More Than I Imagined! “¡Muchas gracias por las computadoras!” The interpreter translated the young boy’s fast little hand movements into words. I struggled with high school Spanish, but understood enough to reply “De nada.” Having never learned sign language, I awkwardly struggled even more with the sign for “You’re welcome.” see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592858974957-SZJJZWDIX972MB9N5G2V/image-asset.jpeg Dominican Republic - Fighting Poverty through Education in the Dominican Republic Fighting Poverty through Education in the Dominican Republic Imagine growing up in a slum, fighting for your food, for your very life, only to be sickened by the water you drink. Imagine being sold into prostitution by your own mother when you were only 9 years old. read more https://www.retailroi.org/kenya daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592859610243-B51X89EXRW1FPFDOUZWF/kenya_large_locatornkt.gif Kenya https://www.retailroi.org/south-africa daily 0.75 2024-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592860319811-8FYU1IQ7FUDZ9VFPOXT3/south-africa_large_locatornkt.gif South Africa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/78ac7129-fe79-49e9-97d1-edd279820701/SA+Collage+2024.jpg South Africa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/3b251745-b555-40d8-a95c-fbfbe998e926/5-2022+Trip-4.jpg South Africa - "Extraordinary" - I'm not sure what to say. Simply an amazing trip. A group of 9 of us just got back from the RetailROI Trip to Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa. This is the only area of the world where we have a continuity of opportunity from age 3 through to college and career. It also happens to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. RetailROI's first project was helping to build a 10-room schoolhouse for a pre-school named Ithemba. It now houses 160 3-6yr old children for pre-school through kindergarten and then they have a tutoring program for 60 elementary school children in the afternoon. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/879dc89c-04bc-4ce4-88ed-c1cad54e73c9/5-2022+Trip-1.jpg South Africa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/fb16123b-c760-482b-9fd7-f5c707e818f6/5-2022+Trip-2.jpg South Africa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/12430f19-3621-46cf-a9c3-65aa2d95f90d/5-2022+Trip-5.jpg South Africa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/5460ca35-e834-48ae-b674-ad9eeb2c60ed/5-2022+Trip-3.jpg South Africa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1617741829835-3K6U6QGCAFNATHUUJ1E2/2021+Oakridge+Academy+Update.JPG South Africa - Global Leadership Academy - A letter from the Principal I wish I counted how many times in the past month I wished we had an upcoming ROI group visit us in May or June of this year… So much has happened on either side of the Atlantic over the past months, that I am sure we would keep each other entertained for some time. The word that best describes the past season at GLA is “maturity”. I am sure in your own spheres you can testify to this. As a Non Profit, we have embraced this season of disruption and challenges, and I believe, that through the goodness of God and the hard work of many hands, we are able to give testimony of many great stories. Some of these stories I wish to share and highlight. read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1598365471907-EUWRHDNRDFSF59PZ44O1/South+Africa+Global+Seminar.jpg South Africa - Would you like to share your life experience and help kids?! RetailROI has a strong relationship with a series of schools in South Africa ranging from age 3 to college age. In fact, through your contributions and support of SuperSaturday, we have more than 25 children progressing from the projects (townships) to a strong leadership high school experience and a few through college. In fact, in 2019 we had our first graduate from poor pre-school not only graduate from high school, but also college and starting as an accountant post college. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592862829850-6INB5NEJ75FUKXLGY69E/South+Africa+Images+15.jpg South Africa - Looks Can Be Deceiving Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, has been in the news a lot over the last few days because of a recent shark attack there during a surfing competition. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592862964832-GFRH7UEWMRA5F2JITVWV/South+Africa+Images+5.jpg South Africa - Trip of a lifetime! My trip with ROI to South Africa is one of the most fantastic and memorable of my life. The travel arrangements by Greg and Chariss went smoothly, and the place at Jeffries Bay was gorgeous. see more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e274f8736f8a2377d86c6ed/1592863138999-N8W4CZQSIY6RHP58OMII/Our+Purpose+2.jpg South Africa - Amazing, joyful, tearful all in one. John journeyed to South Africa with the Retail Orphan Initiative. Together, with a team from Intel, the RetailROI group deployed a new tablet-based education system from Intel in an after-school program in an impoverished area of Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. 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