LAWSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE---- YOU ARE AWESOME

My gratitude goes to Mrs Dean Cook, head of the student life office, Mr Davis, Mrs Patricia Warren, Mrs Rhonda Smith, Ms Sadie Harris and the Lawson SGA. Thank you all for taking my hand and helping me carry this dream for my people. I know that working with you will go beyond what I had dreamed of. I feel lucky to be part of this wonderful family. May God bless you as you continue blessing us.

How we are doing it

Collecting Cans Pictures Click here

Walking in mamas footsteps

Well, this organisation was born out of a desire to continue doing the good work our mother had been doing for and with the people of our village. Our parents donated a part of their land to the African Inland Church.This is our home church,the place we were baptised, the place where mama met with women and shared the gospel with them. This is where deep friendships among the women was born, a place where they learnt to pray together, to talk about their problems, to celebrate their achievements and to worship together. This wonderful small church changed the lives of many women. It is also the place where mamas funeral service was held. This church symbolizes a testimony of a faithful servant called home to rest after a profitable time of work.We want to help complete the building of this church so that the wonderful work that the L ord began will continue on and so that the memory of this beautiful woman will live on in the lives of the people who come to worship the Lord in this temple.

The cans you are giving and donating to us will make this a possibility.Thank you again. We know that the blessings of God are with you.

The first steps

 

The can collection is going on and we are excited at the people´s response.Here is just a little look into what we are doing as of now!!!!The first step into a better future.

 

  

 

 

Can collection update

Well,who would have thought!!!!We already have 20 members on our facebook group.We want to say thank you for joining and we hope to hear from you soon and ofcourse to collect cans from your neighbourhood.It would be an honour for us to get to know each of you personally and what your thoughts are about the best way to bring change to the families we are reaching out to.Please feel free to leave a note on the group wall,write us an email,call us or comment here on the blog.
At this time we can report that we have already collected about 30 000 cans!!!It is no easy work but it is for a good cause and its a pleasure doing it.we want to say thank you to the people who have offered to help in many ways,the many gas station owners who have allowed us to use their premises to collect cans.Gas stations on highway 31, highway 150, my neighborhood gas stations on Lorna Road, Green Springs and highway 280. Watson town & country gas station,thank you for allowing us to use your premises for storage of the cans.We say thank you too, to the many,many good citizens of Alabama who have given us their cans even though they know nothing about us.We thank you for your trust.God bless you.

The beginning of the dream

On the 24th of August 2008, my mother died, three days after being diagnosed with cancer. Our lives have never been the same again.... not just the family but the whole community in my village. She was the most generous person I knew and had tried to do her best to help the women in my village and the whole district at large. She led christian conferences where life within the family was discussed and we watched her over the years giving food to the people who were poor and providing free milk to children whose mothers couldn´t afford to buy any and also to the children whose mothers had died during childbirth. On the day she was laid to rest, the beginning of a period of long soul searching began for me and ended with the birth of My Can Will Change a Life. We want to take up from where she left and because we have more resources in our hands, we want to do something that will change the lives of families once and for all. This means that instead of just giving handouts, we are going to educate and empower the people to make good use of the resources they have, we are going to support their endeavours to fight poverty and we are going to build a hospital that is greatly needed; a hospital that I wish my mother had lived to use. We will also help in the completion of the church still being built on the piece of land my parents donated to the African Inland Church. So, I pray that for you, this journey of transforming lives will be as exciting and as fulfilling as it is for us at My Can Will Change a Life!!!!