How to donate for Kalila

Amazing: With all pledges so far, along with $5K from Rotary, we are almost at $30K for Kalila out of the $36K necessary. Clearly we are going to make it. The time has come to speedily gather all of your generous donations and be poised to write a check to the hospital and bring Kalila here. She is at risk every day -- and the sooner we get the money in the account, the sooner we can bring her here and save her life, so please send checks ASAP.

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HOW TO SEND DONATIONS: My mother set up a special account for Kalila at the Old National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana.*

You can send your pledge in one of two ways:

1) Paypal.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to select "personal" and then "gift", instead of "purchase", when you get to the bottom of the payment screen. Also, please pay with your bank account if you can, in order to avoid the service fee -- but no worries if you need to use credit card:

2) Make a check out to KALILA MAHAMA HEART FUND and mail it to my mother** at

Kelsey Kauffman
609 Ridge Ave.
Greencastle, IN 46135

We want to convey the enormous gratitude of Kalila’s family. They are amazed that so many of our friends (153 at last count!) would care enough about Kalila to try to save her life. Kalila’s mother sent a very touching email to my mother late Friday night sharing her fears and sense of guilt that the problem had not been diagnosed earlier (despite her having taken Kalila to doctors repeatedly over the past 14 months). "I am a basket [case] when I am alone," she wrote. "I have learned not to breakdown in public... but whenever I am alone with Kalila and especially while I watch her sleep, I can't help but cry." Kalila’s grandfather, ever the optimist, has invited all of you to Ghana so he can thank you personally after the surgery!

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*Reverend Bill Wieland (St. Andrews Episcopal Church) and accountant David Bray (Bray and Associates) have kindly agreed to be co-signers on the account with her. All checks written from the account will need to be signed by both Rev. Wieland and my mother.

**She will record it, send you a receipt (in most cases electronically) with a copy to David Bray, and take it to the bank where the bank will stamp it "for deposit only."