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2009 was an amazing year for A Broader View Volunteers! A Broader View Volunteers financially donated over $250,000 to our local programs and placed near +500 volunteers overseas. Our volunteers touched thousands of people in every corner of the World Contributions made by ABV Volunteers and our participants. · In Uganda, with ABV funding and the support of our international volunteers construction on a new school house and volunteer center has begun. This program provides support to over 300 children of the Bulenga village. · In Chile, with ABV funding and the hard work of three volunteers a new mural was painted at a children’s orphanage in La Serena Chile. · In Kenya, with ABV funding hundreds of girls in the Central highland region received much needed sanitary pads and underwear which without prohibited them from attending school each month. · In Peru, with ABV funding and the hard work of multiple volunteers a new handmade tile art collage was completed and hung in a girl’s orphanage in Cusco. · In Costa Rica, ABV volunteers lent countless hours by assisting in a sea turtle conservation project. · In Argentina, ABV funding provided construction materials and hands-on support to a local community center in Lomas de Zamora in hopes of creating a safer and friendlier environment to the hundreds of children served at this center. · In Ghana, with ABV funding, and dozens of international volunteers, the small community of Kpando received medical donations, medical checkups, and much needed funding for the expansion of their current orphanage. · In Tanzania, with ABV direct support two local orphanages in Arusha received much needed funding for children’s clothing, food, farming materials, construction supplies and also small gifts for their children. · In Kenya, with ABV direct support our Mombasa feeding program received much needed funds to purchase farming equipment in aim to grow food to support 180 children in the orphan center and village school. · In Honduras, our ABV programs placed over 75 international volunteers in the town of La Ceiba who volunteered in medical and dental clinics, in schools for children with special needs, in local orphanages, and with the local Red Cross HIV outreach efforts. · In Morocco, our ABV volunteers participated in summer day camp activities with over 400 children, only to return to the USA to raise hundreds of dollars for the orphanage itself. · In Zambia, with ABV funding 220 children at a Lusaka drop in center were provided educational material, pens, papers, construction supplies for new desks and food every day for a month. · We are helping over 10.000 orphans in 22 countries with food, medications, schools supplies and mosquito nets. · Our volunteers took care of 25.000 sea turtle eggs and helped the new turtles to get safe to the ocean, impacting the biodiversity in a positive way. · ABV sent 9 medical and nurse missions overseas with medicine and treatment for entire villages, this helped over 700 patients. We are touched by the overwhelming generosity and support of our volunteers. There is still a lot more work and funding needed to help these global communities. We hope you will support the ABV programs, or decide to volunteer with us in 2010. Thank you!

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Hundrends of volunteers help various local nonprofit organziations including Habitat for Humanity, Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC), Holy Trinity Food Pantry, Wayne-Pike Adult Literacy, American Red Cross and others. For more details, visit www.unitedwaypike.org.

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Esme Kenney age 13,Talented cellist, artist, boating enthusiast, storyteller,caregiver,explorer. She is deeply missed by uncountable friends & relatives across the globe who will always remember the spirit, warmth, wit, & love she gave to everybody she knew. Favorite colors red & pink. A 7th grader at The School for Creative & Performing Arts (SCPA) w/ a double major in vocal & instrumental music
Her life was stolen by the Pure evil of serial killer Anthony Kirkland Time line of crimes;
*May 20, 1987 Anthony Kirkland,18, strangled & beats Leola Douglas, 29, Who dated a family member of Kirkland. After an argument in his home. He douses her w/ lighter fluid & gas then set her on fire, killing her. He did this in his grandpa house almost killing his uncle Convicted of voluntary manslaughter & serves 16 yrs in prison
• Sept.3,03 Released from prison
• Oct.25,04 Released from parole
• Jan.25,05 Accused of raping a female neighbor in Evanston at knife point. Jury acquits him in Oct 05
• May 11,06 The burned body of 14-y.o.Casoyia Sharee Crawford is found in Avondale
• June 16,06 The burned body of Mary Jo Newton, 45, is found behind a vacant building in Avondale
• May 14,07 Kirkland threatens to kill his 18-month-old son during a SWAT standoff at Kirklands house at 860 Ridgeway. He is convicted 3 months later of 2 counts of unlawful restraint & got 115 days in jail
• Sept.17,07 Rev. Walter Bledsoe seeks a restraining order against Kirkland on behalf of members of his family Court records do not say why he sought the order, but a judge granted it in Dec. 07, ordering Kirkland to stay away from the Bledsoes
• Sept.26,07 Kirkland solicits solicited sex from his girlfriends 13-y.o. daughter. He is convicted in Mar 08 of importuning & sentenced to 1 year in prison. Judge designates him a sex offender, requiring him to register his address with the sheriffs office
• Oct.20,08 He is released from prison for the importuning case & ordered to spend 5 yrs on parole. He enters the Pogue Rehab Center, a halfway house in Over-the-Rhine run by the Volunteers of America
• Feb.27,09 Kirkland fights with another halfway house resident at 11.30pm Police are called, but Kirkland is not arrested b/c the other man refuses to press charges Halfway house managers throw Kirkland out for breaking the rules by fighting, but they do not notify his parole officer for 2 days. Kirkland does not immediately register a new address with the sheriff as required by law
• Mar.1,09 Kirkland is accused of breaking into a home, hiding in the bathroom & attacking Frederick Hughes w/ scissors. Hughes suffers at least 10stab wounds & survives. Kirkland flees. A warrant is issued for his arrest on charges of agg burglary & felonious assault
• Mar.2,09 Kirklands parole officer is notified of his release from the halfway house & begins looking for him
• Mar.4,09 A 2st warrant is issued for Kirklands arrest b/c he failed to register his address with the sheriff after his release from the halfway house
• Mar.5,09 Kirkland threatens Roberta Baldwin, the mother of his child, with a knife. He flees & another warrant is filed against him on charges of domestic violence, agg menacing & violation of a protection order
• Mar.8,09;3.45pm Esme Kenney, 13, goes for a jog near her house
4.15pm Esmes parents call police when their daughter is late returning home. Police begin looking for her
11.30pm Police find Kirkland sleeping against a tree in the woods near Esmes house. Her watch & iPod are in his pocket
• Mar.9,09 Police find Esmes body in the woods at 3.10am, 100 yards from where they found Kirkland sleeping. She is strangled & the lower part of her body burned. Authorities say her attacker attempted to sexually assault her. Police arrest Kirkland & charge him with murder.
-There is a third woman, who has not been identified, who was found on Pulte Avenue in Price Hill
-Anthony Kirkland is also a Suspect in the murders of 6 to 8 other woman
-The DA had written letters asking that Kirkland NOT be let out of prison on parole
Pogue Rehab Center, a halfway house run by the Volunteers of America. With over 60 sex offenders. That happens to be a block from a public park & playground! Can call a parole officers 24/7
BUT they waited 2 days to call. Letting this monster run free
This demon crawled out of the pits of should of been put to on death row in 1987 for the murder of Leola Douglas. BUT, Ohio wants to feed him. As he laid in prison planning a serial killing & raping life. Then let him just skip out of prison
OHIO, THIS MONSTER SHOULD OF NEVER BEEN FREE TO “LIVE IN THE WOODS” LIKE THE “BOGGIE MAN” SOMETHING YOU”D FIND IN A NIGHTMARE!
THESE WOMEN & BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN BLOOD ARE ON THE HANDS OF THE STATE OF OHIO

Ohio governor : PLEASE Sign a bill that lets the public to go to ALL parole hearings & speak in person. B/C, they are disregarding EVERY letter sent to them by anyone

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