CEO of SOS Children’s Villages testimonial.

SOS Children’s Villages is one of the chosen charities to receive funds from The Greener Diamond. We chose SOS for their extreme commitment to children and for the active “hands on” approach they take in every aspect of their outreach. Heather Paul, the CEO of SOS, wrote us this nice letter and we would like to share some of it with you

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“YOU” on Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Thanks to our dear friend John Littlefield from Extreme Makeover Home Edition we have an exciting opportunity for 2 people to win a trip to be on the show. Spend two days on set with Johnny and the rest of the design team and get in on the action. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to meet everyone, including the surprise celebrity guest.

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Extreme Makeover Home Edition: John Littlefield in the ENOUGH shirt with Christian Slater

Last Sunday the Extreme Makeover Home Edition team traveled to Hattiesburg, Mississippi with celebrity guest Christian Slater to help out the very deserving Heathcock family. Sherman Heathcock decided after 9/11 to join the National guard and defend our country. Sherman is also an active deputy sheriff, a member of the SWAT team and the coach for his sons Football team.

While Sherman was serving in Iraq Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the Heathcock family home leaving Sherman’s wife and kids in a very bad situation. Ty, Johnny, Page, Michael and celebrity guest Christian Slater are more than ready to help out this very deserving family

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Eco friendly jeweler MiaDonna working with ex child soldiers in Africa

Finally, we are happy to announce that the ENOUGH project is officially underway. We will be breaking ground in May and are starting to deliver the resources necessary to give these kids and their community a new start on life. Over the past year the word has spread in Africa about the ENOUGH project and in that time the 150 ex child soldiers that were waiting on us has now grown to over 500. We will be working in a small village in the Konor region of Sierra Leone. Our goal is to provide this community with all the tools, skills and resources necessary to turn a toxic, abandoned, diamond mine into a thriving rice field, giving these kids and their community a sustainable source of food and money.

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The Greener Diamond is on FACEBOOK.

The Greener Diamond is a foundation created by MiaDonna and Company that works with celebrities and global organizations in a joint effort to create sustainability in Africa one village at a time. If you are unfamiliar with The Greener Diamond you can keep up with our latest projects and fundraisers on our blog here or you can now chat and discuss some of our projects with us on FACEBOOK. MiaDonna is focused on being an Eco friendly, conflict free company as well as offering environmentally friendly products.

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10 year old will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise funds for Youth Action International.

The Greener Diamond has been working with Youth Action International for a little over a year now with the goal of re-using an abandoned diamond mine in the Konor region of Sierra leone, to plant rice fields and train reformed child soldiers the trade of farming. Our project is called the ENOUGH! project.

However, we wanted to take a moment and share with you a story about a 10 year old girl named Fiona. Fiona is from Calgary, Canada and recently attended a conference where Kimmie Weeks, the founder of Youth Action International, was telling his story of surviving an African civil war and personally disarming childhood soldiers at a very young age.
After hearing Kimmie’s story 10 year old Fiona decided to actually do something. This February she is going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in an order to raise money for YAI.

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