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Garden of Innocence National®

Providing Dignified Burials For Abandoned children

We are a 501 (c) (3) Non Profit
We provide dignified burials for abandoned and unidentified children Free to the counties in each state.
Won't you help us build a Garden of Innocence in every state.
Please donate today, thank you!

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Our theme song especially writen for the garden by Joe Rathburn. "GOD'S CHILD"
PROVIDING DIGNIFIED BURIALS FOR ABANDONED & UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN
Children in the chain of love
Little Ann Marie beautiful casket
Children making caskets for children-Amazing!
Sprinkling rose petals over the casket and leaving a toy
Garden of Innocence National
 
Who are we?  We are people that care-A Lot!
We are going to make sure no child leaves this earth without someone who cared!
We are going to build a Garden of Innocence in every state so this will not happen.
We are going to strive to bring communites together to help us care for these children and know that they are doing the right and good thing.
What we need is Your help!  One state at a time!
We are a non profit, non denominational and fully run by community volunteers.
 
March 2012 News
March 13th we will be traveling to Maricopa County Arizona to meet the coroners office to see if they will allow us to help them with their indigent program for children.  Babs France who has been a volunteer for Garden of Innocence/San Diego is going to be the director of our new Garden of Innocence/Valley of the Sun in Phoenix, Arizona.  Please keep us in your prayers that we can make this happen.
 
Hoping to return to Las Vegas this month as well. Today we talked to the coroner of Clark county and he felt it was the time to come back and talk again.  We are so looking forward to this.
 
February 2012 News
We traveled along Hwy 99 in California in February to meet with Coroners in all the counties from Bakersfield to San Joaquin.
We had a wonderful time meeting coroners and telling them about the Garden and seeing if they will allow us to work with them in their indigent program.
Our goal is to have Garden of Innocence throughout California and /then head to parts unknown.
Babs France has offered to lay the ground work in Phoenix, Arizona so we are looking forward to heading there in March.
May we are heading to the East Coast to meet the coroners in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey. We have volunteers in those area wanting a Garden of innocence in their area.
Please consider visiting our donation page so that we can be assured that this Garden will continue to grow so that no child leaves this earth without someone who cared.
If you know someone in the following counties that might be interested in helping us in their area, please ask them to contact us.
California Counties:
Kern, Fresno, King, Tulare, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Orange Counties
 
 
May 2012 we will be traveling to the East Coast
 
We will be looking for volunteers in Long Island, NY, Hartford, Connecticut, Trenton, NJ, Providence, RI and Boston, Massachusetts.  We are hoping to build new gardens near these areas.

Knights of Columbus make it their mission to show up to every service. Look how many came today for Ann Maries service. The 100th baby in Garden of Innocence San Diego
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Make your donation today to Garden of Innocence National

If you or anyone you know might be interested in helping us start a garden in your state, please contact us, we need all the help we can get. Just have them email us at goinational@hotmail.com or call us toll free at 760-805-9058. 
We are working in Seattle, Las Vegas, Bakersfield and Long Island New York, right now.
 
San Francisco Chronicle prints great article about Garden of Innocence/Bay Area

San Francisco Chronicle printed a great article on Saturday July 16th, about our newest Garden of Innocence/Bay Area in San Francisco.  If you would like to see this article please log onto www.sfgate.com and search for garden of innocence.
Please hit the tab on the left to view all the news on this new garden and to meet Mike Gunn our newest director for Garden of Innocence/Bay Area
For more infor:
goibayarea@gmail.com

If you would like to start a Garden of Innocence in your area, please write us at goinational@hotmail.com

We'd love to hear from you

INTRODUCING OUR NEWEST GARDEN
GARDEN OF INNOCENCE/WASHINGTON, INDIANA


We are so excited to have our newest Garden in Washington, IN.  This is an wonderful example of a community coming together to do what is right in caring for its lost children. The Knights of Columbus are the originators of this new garden with help from the Boy Scouts and local citizens of Washington.  How wonderful is this!  Please watch their page tab to the left for more information from this newest addition to Garden of Innocence National.  One state at a time we will work to bring communites of volunteers together to do what is right and pass it forward.  Thank you Washington for stepping forward.





Elissa with Mike Gunn the new Director of Garden of Innocence/Bay Area. He will be handling all nine counties surrounding the Bay area.

We had a great visit to San Francisco.  Spend 5 days in the city and visited all the coroners and Public Administrators around the bay area.  We will be caring for the abandoned and unidentifed children in the following counties:
San Francisco County
Sonoma County
Alameda County
Marin County
Santa Clara County
Napa County
Solano County
San Mateo County
We have an amazing volunteer in San Francisco, who will be the coordinator for all the counties, Special Agent Mike Gunn with the San Francisco Sheriff Department.  Also my dear friend from high school days, Ken Grant will be the point of contact for Solano County.
We need volunteers from each county so if you are interested, please let us know by emailing us at
goibayarea@live.com
Thank you to Mary Nardell for traveling with me and helping me keep to the right road.  Driving in San Francisco can be a challenge, so am very thankful Mary was my navigator.
Found a great spot to stay: The Handerly in Fashion square gave us a discount and provided a very nice rest.  Think about the Handerly next time you go to San Francisco as it is close to everything and easy access to freeway, Bart and cablecar.

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Our sincere thanks to Stewart Enterprises who are the ones that have donated space for us at area cemeteries.  We are so grateful for their kind heart in giving these children a beautiful place to rest.
If you are looking for a final resting place for a loved one, please contact Stewart Enterprises for a location near you.   They can be reached at
www.stewartenterprises.com   

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SAN FRANCISCO AND SEATTLE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING FOR GARDEN OF INNOCENCE/SAN FRANCISCO OR GARDEN OF INNOCENCE/SEATTLE,  PLEASE CLICK THE TAB ON THE LEFT FOR SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE AND EMAIL US.

   
WHAT IS GARDEN OF INNOCENCE NATIONAL

We are a non profit public benefit corporation with one purpose -
To provide dignified burials for abandoned and unidentified children.

We have perfected our craft in our first garden in San Diego and want to teach others how to care for the babies in their area that should not have died alone.

We are going out across the USA to help people in other communities start a Garden of Innocence in their area.  We teach the processes involved and bring a  community  together to make this small life that was lost - leave a legacy.

We aren't going to the communities to take over, but to teach. We help people get started and then let them care for the children themselves.

State by State, we will be meeting people that have the same heart as we do and truly want to see that no child leaves this earth alone.  We don't want to see another child go into Potters Field or be scattered at sea with no on caring.   We Care!
If you feel you are one of the many people that want to see that all the children are loved and cared for, then let us know.  We'd love to meet you and help you start Garden of Innocence in your area.  This is a mission that will touch the hearts of your community and bring closure to issues in peoples lives.  
We give a child a name instead of a morgue number or "Doe".  This is a dignity that every human being deserves is to have a name of their very own.  Just a first name is all they need to set them apart from all the others.
If you build it, they will come.  Who will come?  People will hear about what you have done and will want to pay their respects to a little child that no one else wanted.  To make a difference in their community. 
To hopefully someday put us out of business.   Wouldn't that be nice! 

P.O. Box 722  Carlsbad, California 92008    888-535-4772 Toll Free
156 Walker Way  Vista, CA 92083  (Office)
goinational@hotmail.com


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For more information or to mail your donation please write us at :
P.O. Box 722 Carlsbad, CA 92008
or call (760) 805-9058 for National or (619) 548-4291 for Babs France GOI/Valley of the Sun