How You Can Help :-)

We have had a request to make a page that makes it very clear how you can help us afford our $42,000 adoption of 15 year old Sergey, pictured below (he's the one in the gray shirt, and this picture is from when we hosted him for a month this summer).  Here are the two biggest things you can do right now, and if you ever want to just donate directly, you can just click on that button to the left that says "donate" and it will take you to a paypal page where you can donate :-).

1.  SHOES SHOES SHOES!!!! We are working with an organization that will actually pay us for USED shoes!!! The shoes will go to several different poor countries to help the folks there, and we will receive $10 for every 25 pounds of shoes we gather.  ANY KIND OF SHOES, ANY CONDITION.  You can bring them to our home at 10052 Rinker Drive, Mechanicsville, VA 23116 and stick them in the old blue Suburban that is always parked at the top of the driveway :-). We have already made almost $3000 from this drive - THANK YOU SO MUCH to those who have already donated!!!

2.  SHOP SHOP SHOP!!!!! If you buy ANYTHING on Amazon, and you click on our link before you shop, we will receive 7% of your purchase price, at no extra cost to you, and it is completely anonymous.  MAKE SURE TO CLICK BEFORE YOU SHOP - if there is anything already in your cart before you click on our link, it will not work. Nothing will look any different when you shop, but IT WORKS!! We have already raised over $6000 through this simple link - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!  THE LINK IS: www.playtennishanover.com/amazon.  If you click on the picture of the 6 of us at the top left corner of this page, it will take you directly there as well :-).

We would be SOOO grateful if you would be willing to share this with your friends/neighbors/co-workers/family.  The wider we can spread the word, the more quickly we can get to our goal.  If you want to learn more about Sergey and our journey to bring him home, please click on "Our Story with Sergey" over on the right side of the page, under "Blog Archive". If you'd like to receive an email when we post a new update, just put your email address over in that box on the right :-).

THANK YOU FOR READING THIS and for HELPING US!! WE ARE SO GRATEFUL!!!