FFC's End-of-Year Giving Campaign was a great success!
Friends,
We want to wish you the happiest New Year and extend our warmest gratitude to you. We’re so pleased to report that our end of the year giving campaign was a great success! At 10:30pm EST on December 31st the final donation came to meet our $45,000 matching offer. We did it! Thank you all for choosing the Fly Fishing Collaborative for your generous giving. You make all of this work possible. We’re well on our way to doubling our projects in 2020 and look forward to another amazing year of providing sustainable solutions to poverty and human trafficking.
Thank you for being with us,
Bucky Buchstaber
Executive Director of The Fly Fishing Collaborative
Our next steps:
January 22nd: Honduras
This wonderful project is being done in partnership with New Life Children’s Home in Jalaca Honduras. We are constructing a 1500 sq. ft. Aquaponics Farm for the 32 kids in the home.
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the world with 68 percent of Hondurans living on an income of less than $3.80 per day. The crushing weight of poverty has radically affected the stability of homes, and increasingly more children are given up as orphans, making them extremely vulnerable to commoditization and sexual exploitation. New Life is an orphanage in Jalaca, Honduras that provides a loving and stable home for children abandoned and abused, and works closely with families in the surrounding community to help create a better life for their children.
When we were made aware of New Life’s efforts to use agriculture as way to create more sustainability for the orphanage, and to use farming as a tool to train others in healthy self-sufficiency, we were eager to provide an aquaponics farm for them. This farm is already in progress. The project commenced in early November with ground prep and greenhouse construction and will be finalized through our FFC volunteer team on January 22nd.
Thank you for making this project possible.
March 6th: Toews, Van Zante & Associates proudly present Fly Fishing Collaborative’s Fifth Annual Banquet
Now is the time to reserve your seat at our biggest event of the year! Join a great host of fly anglers, outdoor enthusiast, and people of good will everywhere on March 6th at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Oregon. This is where the collaboration of a great community comes together to make a difference in one of the world’s most evil injustices. Near or far, you won’t want to miss this event.