Beltsville News runs two-part story on Reaching Hearts for Kids
The Beltsville News, an all-volunteer newspaper covering the Beltsville, Md. area, ran a two-part feature in its October and November 2009 issues on Reaching Hearts for Kids, a non-profit charitable organization that benefits impoverished children in the world's poorest countries. RHK is celebrating its ten-year anniversary.
Written by Jim Butcher and entitled "A Beltsville Humanitarian Reflects on 10 Years," the feature covered the history of how RHK was established in 1999 by Norma Nashed. RHK is celebrating its ten-year anniversary. The feature also tells how Nashed, born to Christian parents in Palestine and later informally adopted by an Adventist missionary family, went from being a budding airline pilot in Jordan to a budding philanthropist in Takoma Park.
RHK is run by Nashed from her home in Maryland. Currently the organization is benefiting more than 2,500 children in 13 countries, many of them in Africa's most impoverished nations. Nashed garners support from private donors and cooperative organizations "to provide shelter, health care, food, and basic educational support for ... orphaned or abandoned kids in struggling countries around the world." Many of the orphans' parents died of AIDS.
Recent RHK projects include partnering with Hungary's Foundation for Africa to provide food, clean drinking water, clothing, and educational assistance to 1,200 students at Otheniel College in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Visit the Reaching Hearts for Kids website.