• Operation Smile -This project supports surgical reconstruction of Cleft lip or Cleft Palate deformities in children.  BLWC has donated to this cause for the past several years.  The donation is $1,500 to cover operations for four children.  Much of the medical, nursing care and travel costs are covered by volunteers and donated services.  Our donation was $1,500 in September  2009.
• Global Health Action - Haitian Goat Project.  This project supports "healthy people, healthy communities, a healthy world" by donating a pregnant goat to families and farmers to teach the value of raising goats as a source of money, food and milk.  People get training in workshops in their own community.  $180 buys a pregnant goat.  In December 2009, BLWC donated $360 for two goats.
• Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF). This project supports NYOF's mission of buying piglets to give to parents who otherwise would have to indenture their daughters to gain enough money to feed the rest of the family.  When raised, the piglets will provide an equivalent sum of money and their daughters will be able to stay at home with the rest of the family and attend school.  In May 2009, BLWC donated $250 for two piglets.
• CARE.  In March 2009, BLWC donated $200 in support of sending young girls to school for a year as part of CARE's Hope for Children program.
• Heifer Project International - The Heifer Project Gift Ark offers shelter to families battered by the storms of hunger and poverty that are still raging around our world.  A generous gift launches a parade of farm animals on a voyage to wherever they're needed most.  The price of a Gift Ark includes the purchase/transport of quality animals and the training/support Heifer Project gives recipients.  They learn how to maintain a sustainable source of food and income.  Contributions to the Gift Ark program are symbolic and represent a contribution to the entire mission of HPI.  In September 2009 BLWC donated $300.00 to the project.
• Save the Children- BLWC member, Lynda Fitzsimmons, set up a project where some of our club members knitted baby hats to be sent around the world including the United States.  BLWC donated $100.00 for this project in 2009.  Lynda has now expanded her project, making dolls for African children with AIDS.
• Operation Christmas Child- BLWC has participated in this program in the past where club members fill shoe boxes with school supplies, clothing, candy etc.  These shoe boxes were collected by Julia Hayes in December 2009 and distributed to poor children around the world.

•  In February 2010 BLWC sent a check for $500.00 to the General Federation of Women's Clubs for the Haiti Disaster Relief Fund.

Carol Gibson, Chairman