DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Jemma Jacques is a 29 year old who resides in Los Angeles. Her travels to third world countries, over the past ten years, were the inspiration to found the non-profit organization Dreams Can Come True.

Dreams Can Come True (DCCT) is Jemma's way of helping people around the world. The mission of the organization is to provide motivation and education to people all over the world, no matter what their age, as well as to find fresh and creative approaches to self-sustainability and economic growth.

Jemma's favorite project is working with a Buddhist monk in Thailand who opened the doors of the monastery to serve as an orphanage for 880 abandoned and orphaned children from ages 5-18. The monk supports the children's needs by offering advice and blessings to locals in exchange for food, water and other donations that he passes along to the children. The monk is able to keep the children fed and sheltered but is in need of an education center to teach them skills and trades that they can use when they leave the orphanage.

To help the monk's efforts, Jemma is hosting a silent auction in May at the Beverly Hilton that will offer paintings created by elephants that live in a camp near the orphanage. All proceeds raised by the auction will help fund DCCT and the orphanage. In September, DCCT will also offer a trip for volunteers to help teach the kids skill sets, to enable them to find work in trades after they leave the orphanage and avoid becoming homeless or having to enter the sex-trade industry.

The DCCT website allows anyone, anywhere in the world to have a dream and in turn offers people everywhere the opportunity to make those dreams come true. Whether the dream is building an education center for an orphanage in Thailand or providing fresh drinking water to children in Cambodia, the website gives people the ability to change lives. The Thailand trip will also be the subject of a documentary that seeks to teach people about the needs of the third-world.

- Carly Zinderman

For more information on Dreams Can Come True please visit www.dcct.org

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