Ms. Sarah Ehrlich
Founder & Executive Director
In 2004, American humanitarian Sarah Ehrlich traveled to India to volunteer at an orphanage in Mysore. Inspired by this Hindu organization with nearly 300 schools for orphans in India, Sarah decided to establish her own secular organization, Help For Orphans International. She was approached by several orphanages in Kenya, an African nation with over 2.5 million orphaned children, nearly 50% of whom have lost one or both parents due to the AIDS epidemic.
One particular orphanage, run by a local pastor in Kisii, invited her to come and help the community. She personally travelled to Kenya on numerous occassions helping this school and others. Help For Orphans now has many ongoing projects in the region. These include clean water and sanitation projects, animal husbandry and agriculture programs, building and renovating schools, and solar panel projects.
Help for Orphans International has grown rapidly since then and provides real solutions to the problems orphans face, and a strategy so they can become self sufficient and provide for their whole community. Help For Orphans programs are far reaching. We have helped, supported and partnered with communities and orphanages in Kenya, Bali, Honduras, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Uganda, Haiti, and Mexico, providing much needed support from food, farm animals, and clothing, to education, medical, self-sufficiency programs and more.
In addition Ms. Sarah Ehrlich has researched and selected study procedures that have proven to be effective in schools and the areas in which Help for Orphans is operating.
Prior to founding Help for Orphans International, Ms. Ehrlich was active in real estate development. She is a licensed scuba diver, a student pilot and a percussionist. Ms. Ehrlch has lectured in Africa, India and the United States on educational issues.
In familiarizing herself with world issues, Ms. Sarah Ehrlich has travelled to more that 60 countries including such diverse places as Uzbekistan, Myanmar and Peru.
Ms. Sarah Ehrlich lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA. She has three sons ranging in age from 3-12 years of age. Her husband, Mr. David Ehrlich, is an investor and antiquities consultant.
Date Recorded: 6/4/2012
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