The Sad Orphan Foundation has been established to specifically help orphans in the United States of America.

The intent of this organization is to make sure that a minimum of 90-95% of all the donations received go directly to the children. Not to groups, organizations and/or societies who tend to pay themselves large salaries and in the end leave the kids getting little or nothing.

The foundations books will be available on the internet 24/7. All transactions will be posted on this web site (In simple plain English) for everyone to view.

I am not exactly sure what all "The Sad Orphan Foundation" can accomplish. It is not easy, trying to establish such an organization and to find honest, capable people who are willing to give that much of their time. Oh! there are those who are willing to help if it makes them look like a big shot in the community. I don't need, or want people like that in this organization.

The kids that I am trying to help did not do anything wrong. They are innocent children who were abandoned or mistreated by their parents.

What I plan to do for these children may not have much of an affect right now. But in the years to come they will remember the kindness that was showed to them. I know this for a fact.

Common sense tells us that we never harm those who are kind to us. Kindness is the only path leading into the heart of the orphan, or abused child. It is then, and only then, that we can start to build a lasting relationship based on love and trust.

I will be there, myself, I will be the one who tells them that it is "you" who have helped them. That you do care about what happens to them.

The money given to this foundation will not be wasted. Not one single penny. There will be no fancy envelopes or stationary. These items, if necessary, will be purchased from the dollar store. Should the time come that the organization grows and needs any type of paid help. The president of the company down to the last man on the totem pole will receive a minimum wage. There will be no bonuses for anyone, ever.

I will not spend one penny on anything that the orphanage itself should have purchased for the children. If by chance, these children are taken to Disney World, Universal Studios, a water slide, movie or the like. I, as the President of the foundation, will make sure that the lowest possible fare(s) have been achieved.

Have you have ever wondered why a young person goes off the deep end and hurts others. I can tell you the reason because I have been there. When all has failed in a child's life and they feel that they have nothing to lose. The next thought is to hurt someone or to get even with the world. At this point they do not need 'a reason to do it because they feel that they already have one. Now their mind searches for a reason not to do it. This is the critical point in the process of decision. 'Love' at this point is totally worthless to that child. However, kindness always seems to shine through and gives the child 'a reason' not to hurt someone.

The brilliant minds of yesterday, as well as all the educated scholars of today have had their chance and they have failed. It is time for a new approach. It is time to allow some of us who have ridden on the train of despair to have a chance to stop it.

The Sad Orphan Foundation will never be allowed to become more important than it's purpose. It does not take a million dollars to save a child. It might be a watch, a notebook or even a movie, if given at the right time.

"Kindness" is the foundation for raising a good child, when love is no where to be found.

The Sad Orphan Foundation (Orphan Outreach Fund) was organized on the first day of January 2002.

The sole purpose of the foundation is to help children who are orphans (parents or not) who are now residing in orphanages (children's homes) within the United States of America. The Orphan Outreach Programs purpose is to try and remove the child's feeling of being totally incarcerated while living in these types of institutions.

It is not the purpose of our foundation to try and clothe, feed or house these children. That is already being taken care of by various other agencies. The main purpose of the foundation is to try and establish a program called "e-doptions." This will allow older orphan children, who would not ordinarily be adopted, to have contact with stable families on the outside.

It is our intent to try and supply a computer(s) to these children so that they will have contact with friends and/or families who live outside the orphanage perimeter.

Each orphan child would eventually start receiving letters, e-mail, monies and gifts from a family. Hopefully in time they would feel that they had become somewhat a part of a normal family structure.

The purpose of this is to try and give the child a sense of family rather than just being a part of a gang or a herd. It is very important that the child (when someday leaving the orphanage) have a sense of direction and belonging. That they have the feeling of having been a part of something good and kind. Other than just a prison style environment.

When these children grow up and are cast out of the orphanage they will no longer have a home. The orphanage will now be no more to them than the local seven-eleven store down on the corner. They will now truly be homeless. Having been locked up for years, though educated and treated kindly, there will be no love or happiness, stored in their memories. There will be no loving experiences for these kids to look back upon, as far as a stable home with a mother and a father is concerned. Just the thought of having been treated ok and kept locked away from the rest of the world, as if they were nothing more than common criminals.

Orphans need a space somewhere on this earth that they can consider a home, even though they may never have actually lived there. They certainly can not take their children, or grandchildren back to the orphanage for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

The day will come when they are going to need a place (from their past) to take their children, or their grandchildren for the holidays. The orphanage will no longer be there for them.

We need to start building that "place", that "space", that "home", that "past", those memories, right now. Orphans need to start forming some good and loving memories that will be remembered by them in the future. That is going to be the foundation upon which their future is going to be built.

If we do not change the system, now in place, then these children's foundations are going to be built strictly upon their years of incarceration, upon their sadness and upon their loneliness. When they reach adulthood they will remember their prison style home. A home that may have very well have fed, clothed, housed and educated them in a very good manner.

Nevertheless, the day will come when they will realize that the orphanage was nothing more than a prison built for unwanted children.

If we do not break this cycle right now those repetitive hours, days, weeks, months and years that all orphans suffer are going to come back to haunt us.

Oh! How much it meant to me, when I left the orphanage many years ago to have a faint light off in the distance. To have had someone who cared if I lived or died. Someone who cared about who or what I was going to become someday. In all my loneliness it was that small beacon of light that somewhat directed me until I became stable enough to understand the rules that I was expected to abide by as a decent member of society.

It was not love that saved me. It was the kindness of just a few wonderful people. People who truly cared for me and expected nothing in return, except to give me a better future and a real chance at life.

Orphan, Roger Dean Kiser, Author
Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Orphan, A true story of abandonment, abuse and redemption.
Heartwarmers. Heartwarmers Of Love.
Reader's Digest Daily
A Cool Collection I.
A Cool Collection II.
Petwarmers CD Collection.

Those who wish to make a donation please send a check or money order to:

THE SAD ORPHAN FOUNDATION
c/o Author, Roger Dean Kiser, Sr.
100 Northridge Drive
Brunswick, Georgia 31525

THANK YOU,

Author, Roger Dean Kiser, Sr.

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