One week till wheels up!

Just seven days before the first project of Together for Afghanistan is underway.  So much has happened and there is much good news to report.

First we have accepted the grant application from NGO Lojvar for the first business adviser office.  I know it's been up on our website but we were still hammering out the details and it wasn't really real... but now it is.

Second, we are no longer just Together for Afghanistan! We will be changing our names from T4A and Together for Afghanistan  TO "Together for a Better Life" or "T4ABLE."  This has been in the works for awhile but we wanted to broaden the horizon beyond just Afghanistan to all the hard places in the world where we might have the opportunity to help.

Thirdly, we have applied to the IRS for tax exempt status so we're just waiting on that to come back approved.  While we cannnot guarantee that gifts will be tax deductible if we are approved all previous gifts would be tax deductible.  We'll let you know as soon as we hear back from them.

I will be blogging from Tajikistan as often as I am able to keep you up to date with the goings on of the project.   This week I will lay out the goals and timelines of the trip to make it easy to follow along.

Moving Faster...

Everything seems to be moving at quite a clip right now as deadlines are drawing ever nearer.  With all the time seeming to drain away there is tremendous amounts of good news.

I have acquired a visa to consult with NGO Lojvar in Tajikistan where I will be overseeing the initial stages of our partnership with them.  This means that our Business Advisor Project in Tajikistan is about to begin.  We are still in need of donations for that project.

Our Board of Directors is full and they are an exciting group of guys to work with.  We are working hard to complete our application to the IRS for tax exempt status.

All this happening by my flight out on August 7th.  Wow.

Everything is nerve racking but a great deal of work has been done and more is getting done everyday it seems.  This is truly exciting to see the past year and a half come together like it is.  Please join us in this exciting project.  Please email the address on the www.togetherforabetterlife.org website or link to it on your blog, facebook, or other website.

More exciting stuff coming in the next two weeks and then I will begin my live blogging from Tajikistan!