Author Archives: Caring Friends

Give a gift to honor family loved ones or make a donation in memory of someone special in your life.   Click GIVE NOW  to use your credit card (PayPal) or send  to 4024 Lanark Lane, Houston, TX   77025. Select from the mission list below and indicate whether the donation is to honor a particular […]

Caring Friends looks for those LEADING THE WAY addressing areas ofconcern…like the concern for men who are addicts who support their habits via male prostitution. For some these men are throw-a-ways, deserving their plight and their circumstances. For others these men are someone’s son or grandson, brother or nephew, high school friend or next door neighbor, […]

Haiti…the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere..tens of thousands of school children go the entire day without eating…and they have no textbooks and tens of 1000’s have no clean drinking water Donors recently undergirded 3 schools serving over 500 students with monies for biosand filters and clean drinking water! Thank you FRIENDS-IN-DEED for caring for […]

Caring Friends is promoting reading incentives programs at underserved schools like Cunningham Elementary, Sylvan Rodriguez, and Yellowstone Academy. For children who cannot read, the street vultures long to connect to those who drop out of school, failing to point out that the road of illiteracy is often a four lane highway to prison. Edmund Burke’s […]

70% of offenders in prisons are school dropouts 50% of dropouts are functionally illiterates 3rd grade reading scores are said by some to be an important predictor of who might be in prison $300 provided a simple Caring Friends reading incentive program for 15 classes at Cunningham Elementary in 2012. As a Friend In Deed […]

Thanks to FRIENDS-IN-DEED who collectively made it happen! Friends gave collectively a total of $2000 and a new water well will be dug early in 2013 in a rural village in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Pictures of this well will be posted on the website sometime in the winter-spring of 2013!