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Welcome to the P9 Foundation website, the place for artists, musicians, and creative people of all types and interests and for those who love them!
P9 Foundation is a nonprofit organization set up to support creative people in need, to help them and their families as they work to perfect their skills and to become successful in their chosen fields. It is a place where they can showcase their products and interact with customers and those who may wish to sponsor them in furthering their careers.
We also help people of all kinds in need and we offer a place where they can reach out to others and ask for help for specific emergencies and challenges in their lives. To this end we link to GoFundMe and other sites where people can donate to them. We do this as a service to people in need in general. To Donate directly to P9 Foundation, we still use the services of Zeffy. P9 Foundation is a registered nonprofit and all donations are tax-deductable. Any donors thru Zeffy are provided with a tax credit letter for that use.
Our updates page is here to keep you informed on what our current projects and on the people we have been helping. We try to post updates as things are happeninh and then to leave them for you to read through and see what we have done in the past, so postings here will continue to grow as a small history of our work.
So welcome to our website.
Check back often, look around and see what we have to offer. We will do everything we can to make it worth your time.
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Happiness Gives Birth Update 2/18/26
Happiness Gives Birth On Feb 18th, we got a message from John in Ghana. He had just received a call from the hospital where Happiness was staying while waiting to give birth. They informed him that she had just delivered a healthy little baby boy. They wanted John to come to the hospital right away but it was late and John's health is fragile so he said he would be there first thing the next morning. On the next day John went to the hospital with Happiness' older son Destiny
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3 days ago1 min read
Waiting for Happiness Update 2/16/26
Waiting for Happiness A few weeks ago, a young woman named Happiness came to John asking for help, she was pregnant and about to give birth. She asked if we could help so that she could give birth in a hospital in a safe environment for both her and the unborn child. We agreed to do what we could and at the doctors' recommendation Happiness is now in a hospital waiting to give birth. The doctors say she could deliver at any time. So we are waiting nervously to see what will h
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5 days ago1 min read
Happiness Update 2/13/26
Happiness and Destiny Not long ago a young woman came to our friend John in Ghana asking for help. She was pregnant and due to deliver within a week or two and needed a place to stay as well as help financially so that she could give birth in a safe hospital environment. She is 33 years old and she also has a four-year-old son named Destiny. She wanted a safe place for him to stay while she was giving birth. We try to help every pregnant woman who comes to us asking for help
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Feb 131 min read
Anabel Part 2 Update 2/8/26
Anabel Part 2 John in Ghana has finally managed to solve some of his worst communication problems and he has been in direct contact with the ladies taking care of Anabel, the little girl who was abandoned by her mother. John was informed that she is doing well and studying regularly in school to get her education. He was also sent a new photo, and we thought we would post it to show that Anabel is growing into a healthy, happy young girl. https://gofund.me/0e53cedf
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Feb 81 min read
Kodua Update 2/6/26
Kodua Just because we have been having our own challenges within the ranks of P9, that doesn't mean that life has stopped for those we have been helping. They have all been having their own problems and difficulties. Poverty is the relentless enemy, and it never stops making life hard for those who are trapped in its grasp. Just recently John asked if we could help Kodua, one of the small children we have been helping off and on as we have been able. Kodua was abandoned by hi
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Feb 61 min read
Anabel Update 2/4/26
It's the beginning of a new month and as usual that mans a new report on Anabel, the orphan girl in Ghana who is under our care. Anabel was four years old when she was first brought to us and we have been helping to pay for her keep in a children's care center. She has been attending school for some time now and our greatest concern is that she continues to get a good education so that she can break free of the hopeless poverty that is so common among the very poor in Ghana.
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Feb 41 min read
January Update 1/20/26
Situation Update for January We apologize for the shortage of updates lately on P9 and those P9 has been trying to help. Unfortunately, the health challenges we have been going through have been a major distraction in work in Ghana and elsewhere. Added to our own illnesses here, John is once again suffering from his constantly recurring lower intestinal problems. He is suffering from a great deal of pain and is heavily medicated (to the degree that we have been able to afford
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Jan 201 min read
Anabel New Pics Update 1/9/26
Anabel New Pics https://gofund.me/0e53cedf
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Jan 91 min read
Anabels Schooling Update 1/8/26
Anabel's schooling It hasn't been easy keeping up with events in Ghana. The past three weeks have gone into trying to put things back together after our heart attack here in P9 headquarters and inevitably that has caused us to let everything else slide. Survival comes first. That may not be a good thing, but it's inevitable in life. Also, John in Ghana has been seriously ill himself. Generally, we have agreed among ourselves not to talk too much of our own problems in these
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Jan 82 min read
2025 Update 12/28/25
End of the Year- Where we Stand We had intended to post something for Christmas on the website but as it turned out life got in the way, thanks to an unexpected heart attack and a week in the hospital recovering from it. We apologize for our silence. Every year we hope to finance a little Christmas party for our friends in Ghana, for the little ones if no one else, but things keep getting in the way. This year what got in the way is survival. We would still like to do somethi
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Dec 28, 20252 min read
Sunday Emergency Update 12/19/25
Sunday emergency 12/19/2025 This has been a challenging week for us here at P9. Along with our usual challenges in other parts of the world, this last Sunday our Treasurer here at P9 headquarters felt an odd cramping sensation in his chest that quickly developed into an agonizing pain that had him screaming, gasping, and pawing at the wall. His companions hastily called 911 but even before they arrived, he was starting to fade out of consciousness. He was rushed to the emerge
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Dec 19, 20252 min read
Holiday Update 12/14/25 Update
Holiday Update Sorry that we have posted so few updates about John and events in Ghana recently. Things have been unsettled for various reasons, some of them in Ghana and others here. John has been seriously ill, though he has asked that we not post anything about his personal challenges and of course we will respect that request. Naturally John is unable to help others when he has to deal with his own issues. In fact, for a time it was so bad that John was considering whethe
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Dec 14, 20252 min read
Anabel in the Village Update 12/1/25
Anabel in the Village Anabel is the abandoned child we have been caring for since she was brought to our friend John in Ghana when she was three years old. Thanks to generous donations from caring people John has been able to provide not only for her food and lodging but she has also been receiving an education at a private school so that she will have a solid foundation for life when she is older. Just recently Anabel's relatives came to the school and took her to live with
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Dec 1, 20252 min read
BIG NEWS ANABEL update 11/26/25
Big News About Anabel Anabel is a small girl who was found abandoned on the streets in Ghana several years ago. She was brought to our friend John, who took her under his care and arranged for her to stay at a childcare center. She has been living there since that time. Anabel had no one to care for her and no place else to go. If not for the care we provided through P9 during those years she would have been out on the streets. As horrible as it sounds, she would not have bee
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Nov 26, 20252 min read
Sylvia Home Update 11/12/25
Sylvia home Sylvia, the young woman in Ghana who lost her baby boy in childbirth, has been released from the hospital. Earlier today John went with Madon, Sylvia's husband, to pay the final medical bill and bring her home. She is very weak but well enough to go home. While the young couple were going through all of this their landlord locked them out of the room where they had been staying for nonpayment of rent. Sylvia is in no condition to be sleeping on the streets right n
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Nov 12, 20251 min read
Sylvia Recovering Update 11/10/25
Sylvia We received word today that Sylvia has recovered sufficiently that she will be released from the hospital as soon as the paperwork can be arranged, hopefully within a day or so. Hopefully now she and her husband will be able to start to put their lives together after the sad loss of their little boy. Thank you all for your wishes, thoughts and prayers.
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Nov 10, 20251 min read
Sylvia Update 11/9/25
Grieving We are deeply saddened today by the death of the little boy of Sylvia and Madon. He died at birth, at home and with no doctors or any help from medical professionals. The parents are teenagers, barely out of childhood themselves, and they had no one to turn to for help. We at P9 did our best but our funds are limited and there are so many others in need. For now we are struggling to keep the mother alive. And we will help with the baby's burial. A sad and terrible ti
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Nov 9, 20252 min read
Sylvia New Update Update 11/8/25
Sylvia update number 4 Sylvia is alive and in the hospital. We should receive an official update on her condition in the morning. But it is good to hear that she is at least alive.
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Nov 8, 20251 min read
Sylvia Crisis Update 11/7/25
Sylvia- pregnant teenaged girl update 3 We just got an email from John. Sylvia gave birth at home this morning. The baby died. Sylvia not doing well. We are trying to get her to the hospital.
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Nov 7, 20251 min read
Sylvia New Update 10/26/25
Sylvia- pregnant teenaged girl update 2 A quick update: We have been informed that Sylvia is currently in the ER in hospital. We haven't yet been able to learn any details, whether she is giving birth or whether there is some sort of problem. Of course we are very concerned. We will post more when we can. One of the things P9 has always tried to do is to help pregnant women when they come to us in need. Pregnancy is natural and a normal part of life, but it is also dangerous,
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Oct 26, 20252 min read
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