SOS Children’s Villages is calling for help in Haiti.

Just this morning we received an email from Heather at SOS Children’s villages. Long story short, things are bad and they really need help. Below we have posted the email in its entirety for you to read. The Greener Diamond has received funds from MiaDonna&Co. and we have already donated what we can. If there is anything that you can spare we urge you to do the same. Little amounts from lots of sources add up fast.

Dear Anna,

Things have gotten worse.

Our people on the ground are telling us that children are at the greatest risk of dying due to lack of water and the shortage of medical care and medical supplies.

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Extreme Makeover Home Edition “Johnny” celeb cookin in the ENOUGH! shirt.

Back in October we blogged an Extreme Makeover Home Edition episode in which Johnny wore the ENOUGH! shirt while helping out the Montgomery family. The featured celebrity guests during this episode where professional chefs Sandra Lee, Rocko DiSpirito and Oprah’s chef Art smith. The Montgomery family created a non profit called Salt&Light that feeds and clothes less fortunate families. Recently Johnny sent us these behind the scenes photo’s of himself and the celebrity chefs during there time together on set. We wanted to share them with you. The ENOUGH! shirt is for sale and gives 100% of its proceeds to The Greener Diamond to aid in funding the ENOUGH! project.

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EMHE Johnny in the ENOUGH! shirt helps out the Scott family.

What an incredible episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition this last Sunday. The Scott family headed by Trina Scott after loosing her husband Dave in the line of duty has asked EMHE to help with their home that is being taken over buy termites and is ready to crumble. Trina lost her husband Dave in a car accident while perusing a suspect as a member of the Clarksville Tennessee police department. Trina and her 3 daughters Leyla, 17, Deidie, 13 and Alethea 11 had their lives changed in the blink of an eye. Trina Scott took her tragedy and used it to help other family’s who had also lost loved ones in the line of Duty. Trina Scott is now the president of an organization called C.O.P.S (Concerns of Police Survivors) that reaches out and offers support to these family’s. No doubt the this episode will have you in tears before Ty, Johnny, Micheal and Paige even step off the bus.

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EMHE Johnny in the Enough! shirt w/ celebrity guest Usher.

Scheduled to air in early December Ty, Johnny, Paige and Micheal along with celebrity guest Usher will grant a wish to the Scott family. Trina Scott and her three daughters tragically lost her husband and father, Dave, in a car accident while on duty as a Clarksville, Tennessee police officer. Overwhelmed, alone and filled with grief Tina found support in a group called “Concerns for Police Survivors, Inc. or C.O.P.S, which helps the surviving family members of officers killed in the line of duty. Tina now the President of C.O.P.S gives what would equate to a full time job in her dedicated hours to C.O.P.S and this is on top of the already full time job she works in order to support her 3 daughters Leyla, 17, Deidie, 13 and Alethea, 11. The Scott family gets to spend some much needed family time in Disney land while Ty and the rest of the team get to work. Usher works side by side with Paige and Johnny to help make the new Scott house a home; and the family gets to meet celebrity Salina Gomez on the set of “Wizards of Waverly place”

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Extreme Makeover Home Edition designer Johnny in The ENOUGH! shirt last night.

Last night was another heart felt addition of Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The Montgomery family is a family committed to helping others even before they help themselves and created a charitable non profit called Salt&Light. The Family has fed and clothed a tremendous amount of people. Ty, Johnny and the rest of the design team stepped in and gave this family a much needed home improvement and gave the very business they operate the tools and supplies it needed to keep up with the overwhelming demand for food and clothes coming from within their community. During the episode Johnny said something that I thought was particularly relevant to the very thing he and ourselves are trying to do here through The Greener Diamond and through the sale of the ENOUGH! shirts. Johnny said “The purpose of life is a life with purpose” and we could not agree with him more. Celebrity guest Sara Lee, Rocko DiSpirito and Oprah chef Art Smith joined in to help with the makeover.

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ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition with Johnny in the ENOUGH shirt 2009

UPDATE:

The Greener Diamond foundation has been in contact with Johnny Littlefield the designer from ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition and just wanted to let everyone know that Johnny will be wearing the ENOUGH shirt again this season in all his episodes. This season features a new look for the show itself as a celebrity guest is now appearing in each episode. We will continue to post Johnny’s episodes and the work we are doing to move forward with the Enough Project. We appreciate the support and would like to say Thank you to everyone that has already purchased a shirt. Please know that 100% of the proceeds for the shirt sales are going to The Greener Diamond and are being used to raise funds for the ENOUGH project created by Kimmie Weeks himself and his organization Youth Action International. There is a full report available here if you would like to familiarize yourself with both MiaDonna’s and The Greener Diamonds intentions

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SOS Childrens Villages. Planting seeds for the Future!

I would like to tell you about the wonderful job our friends at SOS children’s Villages are doing. I personally love their compassion and ability to focus on the root of the solution by teaching a new generation skills and trades that will enable these communities to create sustainability for the future. It is a much needed piece of the puzzle that has been missing from all the aid and supply being shipped currently. Please take a moment to see what they are doing now. Here is a brief story from SOS to enjoy.

The father of the seven Cussucala children had been killed in the Angolan civil war and the family was in despair. SOS Children’s Villages stepped in to help. Staff from the SOS Family Strengthening Program taught this family to grow their own crops and provided the children with clothing and medical care so that they could attend school. The family is now eating nutritious meals and the children are thriving

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