I learned about this charity when I was watching tv. I was flipping through the channels and I had to wait on one channel to come in. That was one of the channels that I thought would have been boring news, but I began to get engaged in the story. It was stories about kids who got bullied and stopped school and stuff because of their cleft lips. And I really wanted to help.
We began to forget about it until my uncle called on Skype who lived in Namibia and said that Operation Smile had come to Namibia. He had met the people in charge. After that we meant to have a garage sale, but time passed by and we didn't get to it. So this year, when we were looking at my school clothes that didn't fit, I suggested that we have a yard sale for Operation Smile for all our stuff we didn't use. We would ask our neighbours to bring baked goods and to give paintings and for them to give their old stuff.
It is going to be on Saturday, September the 8th from 9-1.
There is a website of Operation Smile. On the site I found a kit, baby pictures, lots of information about the organization. Here is a link to my page on the Operation Smile web site: http://support.operationsmile.org/goto/guelphyardsale
If you want to donate in Canadian dollars and be issued a Canadian tax receipt, go to the Canadian website. The url for the Operation Smile website for US donations is www.operationsmile.org and for Canada it is www.operationsmile.ca .
