Profile: Norma Nashed, Dialogue with president and founder Norma Nashed

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To meet Norma Nashed is to enter the eye of a hurricane. As the founder of the nonprofit organization Restore a Child, Nashed has an all-consuming passion for serving orphans around the world, and she’s not shy about enticing others to join her cause. Our initial introduction is barely completed before the rapid-fire questions begin: “Are you married? Yes? Do you have children? No? Good! Then you should have free time to volunteer with us.” Such audacity goes a long way toward explaining how Nashed has managed to coordinate Restore a Child’s outreach to thousands of children virtually single-handedly for the past 13 years. This is a woman whose own life has dramatically changed course and faced daunting challenges numerous times, yet she has steadfastly maintained an unshakeable faith in God and His leading. Click here to read full article: " Profile: Norma Nashed, Dialogue with president and founder of Restore a Child."

Spectrum Magazine: Defending Orphans

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Norma Nashed is the brains and energy behind a charity helping vulnerable children around the world. Born in Palestine, Nashed grew up poor in Jordan amid many challenges. She went on to work for the founder of Jordanian Airlines, hobnobbing with the country’s king and queen – but gave up a career and salary to give everything to her charity.

Question: You started Restore a Child as a charity that would help provide children around the world with their basic needs. What inspired you to organize the foundation?

Click here to read the full article, "Defending Orphans"

NAD NewsPoints – REACH: Community Outreach and Evangelism

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The do Movement: defend orphans is an outgrowth of the Restore a Child ministry for supporting orphans. Restore a Child was begun in 1999 by Norma Nashed working alone from a small home office, and now assists 4,000 orphans in 15 countries. The do Movement provides a way for others who want to help orphans to join the effort as well as to write in and share their own experiences with others. "Like" Restore a Child on Facebook.

Pacific Union Recorder

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Pacific Union Recorder April 2013 Edition http://pacificunionrecorder.adventistfaith.org/site_data/849/publassist/issue_pdfs/0000/0060/2013-04_WEB.pdf

Press Release: World Orphans Day 2010

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November 2010

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RC’s President, Norma Nashed, featured in REVIEW magazine

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October 14, 2010

Few dreams are realized or fullfilled. Fewer still exceed the expectations of the dreamer who strives earnestly to take a dream to fruition. But the story of Reaching Hearts for Kids (RHK), a Maryland-based nonprofit organization, is the story of how one woman lives her dream of selfless service to orphans in 13 countries. As the world observes World Orphans Day on November, 8, 2010, Norma Nashed, president and founder of Reaching Hearts for Kids, reminds Adventists around the world to unite with scores of organizations in fullfilling the command of the Lord to "visit the fatherless... in their affliction" (James 1:27, KJV). Click here to read the full article, "One Woman's Mission: Healing Children in Troubled Places"

Fox 5 News Features RHK as a Trusted Charity

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Despite economy, many offer help to those in Haiti

January 18, 2010

Fox 5 News features RHK as a trusted charity for donations.

Nashed's charity supports orphanages in 13 countries, including Haiti. There, the Eden Garden orphanage survived. The difficulty now is trying to help the thousands that continue to come to them for aid. "They have a health clinic, where they are serving the injured people, they have a school and a bakery-- all they need is funds so they can feed people," said Nashed. Microgiving is changing the way charities run their campaigns. Today doesn't take a millionaire -- just millions of people giving small amounts -- to make a big difference.

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Gazette Community News: Out of the Ashes

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Putting Aside Personal Challenges for Global Relief, Gazette.Net: Maryland Community Newspaper

April 29, 2009

As a child growing up in Jordan, Norma Nashed survived her battle with poverty and got an education. Her Burtonsville-based nonprofit, Reaching Hearts for Kids, aims to help children around the world do the same. Now, much of Nashed's figh is concentrated on her body but the focus remains helping children. As she endures heart problems and painful arthritis that has bent her fingertips, she sits on a couch at her Beltsville apartment and points out some notable items in various Reaching Hearts for Kids newsletters. The nonproft celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. Click here to read the full article,"Out of the Ashes, A Dream still Remains"

Maryland Gazette Interview

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Putting aside personal challenges for global relief

April 29, 2009

As a child growing up in Jordan, Norma Nashed survived her battle with poverty and got an education. Her Burtonsville-based nonprofit, Reaching Hearts for Kids, aims to help children around the world do the same. Click here to read the full article, "Putting Aside Personal Challenges for Global Relief"

The Jordan Times: Interview

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A Passion For Helping Children

June 27, 2008

By Linda Hindi AMMAN - Norma Nashed Abdul Nour is passionate about helping underprivileged children. The Jordanian American founder and director of “Reaching Hearts for Kids” (www.reachinghearts4kids. org) currently is in the capital, where she has sponsored 25 impoverished children’s education in private schools. Read more... A passion for helping children

The Gazette Community News: Out of the Ashes

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January 17, 2008

The same day that Norma Nashed arrived in Ethiopia to build a home for orphaned children, she learned her Cherry Glen condominium was engulfed in flames. Going onto a news website, she cried as she watched her Beltsville condo burning, but she knew she couldn't leave-- she had a mission to complete. "I cried and couldn't sleeo for four days, but I still had to work," Nashed said. That work entailed completing the orphanage in Ambo, Ethiopia and finalizing the purchase of land planned for a village complete with a school and health clinic. The village would also include 10 homes with shelter for 10 children between the ages of three and 12 years old. Click here to read the full article,"Out of the Ashes, A Dream still Remains"

Mite Equals Might: Giving the Best in Service

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Spring 2007

A widow gave her mite that day in Jerusalem. By faith she believed that, in God's hands, it would make a difference. In the dry, forbidding land of Palestine nearly 2,000 years later, another girl child was born. She too would give her mite to God, but she would live to see Him make the difference. Norma Nashed works today in her tiny Maryland apartment as she guides the world-wide ministry of Reaching Hearts for Kids. The petite retiree speaks softly of God's leading in her life. Click here to read the full article, "Mite Equals Might: Giving the Best in Service"

Fox 5 News:RC President’s Home and Office Destroyed By Fire

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Home and Office of Norma Nashed is Destroyed by Fire

January 2008

A raging fire consumed dozens of Maryland condos back in December, but the early morning fire in Beltsville also destroyed one woman's life work: her children's charity. Now she's starting over, thanks -- in part -- to a generous donor. Fox 5's Melanie Alnwick has the story. Fox 5 News TV Coverage