This is a review for FINDING CHIKA in exchange for a copy of the book.
The book touched my heart in more ways than one. Not because my child has been sick but because mine was taken by a careless driver. I could feel this families pain and love through each page.
As Charlie gets older this will be a book we will read again and again while discussing ways we can help those that are less fortunate than us. As well as teaching Charlie what can happen when a Earthquake hits.
How we all need to come together no, matter of race to rebuild Cities and families torn apart by the Earthquake. Through the book Charlie has learned why its important to volunteer not only in person but have care kits for different events in our home to hand out when things like this happens.
Through FINDING CHIKA Charlie wants to do three things which I will be helping him with and we can incorporate them into our Homeschool classes.
- Adopt a child overseas that we mail letters and send money to once a month. I have told Charlie that if what ever he earns I will match so he can adopt a boy and a girl.
- Volunteer at our local Children’s Hospital to read to the children and play with the ones who can play.
- Visit our local Nursing Home and adopt a grandmother and grandfather we can visit once a week.
As we complied our Bucket List David asked us to add one more item to the list. David want’s us to go once a week to a Animal Shelter and help with the animals.
Charlie and I were surprised David asked to do this but we can’t wait to get started because we all love animals. Through these adventures I know I will be able to exercise and get into better shape allowing me to sign up for a 5K to raise funds for even more causes like Breast Cancer Research in memory of my mom.
Or the National Lung Association in memory of my dad. Once Charlie and I are ready to walk I will be asking my sister and her family to join us so we can teach my niece and nephew how to give back.
Charlie will be reading FINDING CHIKA to them and explaining what happened and why we want to help not only children but adults and pets as well.
FINDING CHIKA – Bestselling author, screenwriter, playwright and nationally-syndicated columnist Mitch Albom’s newest memoir and New York Times bestseller FINDING CHIKA: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family — more than 20 years after Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time—tells the story of another person who would forever change his heart: this time, it was a five year-old orphan from Haiti, who became a permanent part of Albom’s life. Here is a link to Mitch on the TODAY Show discussing his work at the orphanage, bringing Chika home with him and how she forever changed his life for the better.
Meet the Author: Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide.
He has written seven number-one New York Times bestsellers – including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years – award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical.
His most recent work is a return to nonfiction with the New York Times bestseller Finding Chika, a memoir about a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change Albom’s heart.
He founded and oversees SAY Detroit, a consortium of nine different charitable operations in his hometown, including a nonprofit dessert shop and food product line to fund programs for Detroit’s most underserved citizens.
He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com, www.saydetroit.org, and www.havefaithaiti.org
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
