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- EIN 20-4519502
- (608) 231-4475
- 2534 Despins Ln Verona WI 53593-8726 USA
- www.sarnellifriends.com
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: International, International Relief
Mission: Raise funds for sarnelli house hospice & orphanage. This public charity was established to ensure low cost funding for the redemptorist fathers (a roman catholic order of priest and brothers- denver province) mission work. Specifically, in the past they have relied on direct contributions. The founders are friends, relatives and neighbors of father michael shea, a redemptorist priest who has been doing mission work for 40 years. This group wants to ensure that his work receives funding in the most cost effective manner. The members and trustees of this group receive no salary or fees of any kind whatsoever for their work. All funds collected will be distributed to support the charitable work of the redemptorist fathers, specifically sarnelli house.
Programs: The outreach program is a program to visit hiv/aids patients in their homes. Fr. Mike shea started this outreach work with three novitiates from the redemptorists novitiate in nongkhai as his staff, and visited the first adult aids patient group in don wai. Fr mike shea and three novices at the beginning working for hiv/aids people the outreach program covers 5 provinces of the northeast thailand and sees approximately 70 families. It provides for the primary needs of families affected by hiv/aids by supplying medicines, food and money for educating the children. As well as the home visits, the outreach program has visits prisoners in jail, who do not have any relatives to visit them. Once a month the outreach team has an activities day in don wai where the families and children are picked up and driven to don wai for lunch, writing letters to their sponsors and general support.
charlene house charlene house is a 6 room facility for housing visiting volunteers. It has 2 beds /room and share bathroom. One room is wheelchair accessible. Funds raised by friends of sarnelli house have been earmarked to provide a place for volunteers to reside. There are not suitiable housing alternatives for volunteers who come to donate their time for projects such as painting buildings. This year the wiring in charlen house was redone to make it more safe.
capital projects. This year capital projects included expanding sustainable agriculture to provide more of the food needs of the children of sarnelli house. Rice is grown, it's by-products feed hogs, cattle and make fertilizer as well aschicken feed, the chickens are integraded with the fish ponds. . In addition, wiring was upgraded in the remaining buildings and general repair and painting of buildings were supported by fosh.