{"id":399,"date":"2008-03-05T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icbie.net\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2008-03-05T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:59:49","slug":"icbie-helps-the-minha-vo-flor-orphanage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/icbie-helps-the-minha-vo-flor-orphanage\/","title":{"rendered":"ICBIE Helps the Minha V\u00f3 Flor Orphanage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2130016.JPG\" title=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2130016.JPG\" alt=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 4\" height=\"338\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard not to have a soft spot in your heart, when it comes to the Minha v\u00f3 Flor orphanage.  The sight of all the beautiful children would be enough, but then come the wrenching stories from the valiant director Florenice Gomes Mac\u00eado, who has battled for the last eleven years, just to keep things going.  For years, her decrepit building has needed restoration, while she dreamed of restructuring, including building a stairway, so as to create another bedroom on the second story.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the network of ICBIE supporters solved her problems.  Our founding crusader Yvonne Fluckiger Righi was able to find a R$7000 contribution from a wealthy lady in Switzerland (who wishes to remain anonymous), and the construction work is now well underway.   The facade has been restored and repainted, as these pictures show:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/003orphanage15s.jpg\" title=\"Minha vo Flor - before\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/003orphanage15s.jpg\" alt=\"Minha vo Flor - before\" height=\"338\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2130047.JPG\" title=\"New Paint at Minha vo Flor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2130047.JPG\" alt=\"New Paint at Minha vo Flor\" height=\"337\" width=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New walls have been built, both inside and out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2150062.JPG\" title=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2150062.JPG\" alt=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 5\" height=\"213\" width=\"277\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2150063.JPG\" title=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2150063.JPG\" alt=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 6\" height=\"213\" width=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the new stairway is under construction:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dscn2116.jpg\" title=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dscn2116.jpg\" alt=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 2\" height=\"291\" width=\"221\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2130002.JPG\" title=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/p2130002.JPG\" alt=\"Building at Minha vo Flor 3\" height=\"291\" width=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the generosity of one anonymous donor, the children of Minha v\u00f3 Flor will have a more spacious and more salubrious home.   And the ICBIE is proud to have acted as the conduit, the channel for this important assistance.<\/p>\n<p><em>More photos of the renovation\u00a0work at Minha v\u00f3 Flor are posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/icbie.net\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=848\">ICBIE Photo Gallery<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to have a soft spot in your heart, when it comes to the Minha v\u00f3 Flor orphanage. The sight of all the beautiful children would be enough, but then come the wrenching stories from the valiant director Florenice Gomes Mac\u00eado, who has battled for the last eleven years, just to keep things going. For years, her decrepit building has needed restoration, while she dreamed of restructuring, including building a stairway, so as to create another bedroom on the second story. Fortunately, the network of ICBIE supporters solved her problems. Our founding crusader Yvonne Fluckiger Righi was able to find a R$7000 contribution from a wealthy lady in Switzerland (who wishes to remain anonymous), and the construction work is now well underway. The facade has been restored and repainted, as these pictures show: New walls have been built, both inside and out: and the new stairway is under construction: Thanks to the generosity of one anonymous donor, the children of Minha v\u00f3 Flor will have a more spacious and more salubrious home. And the ICBIE is proud to have acted as the conduit, the channel for this important assistance. More photos of the renovation\u00a0work at Minha v\u00f3 Flor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icbie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}