Charles Vanoy, the founder of Remede-Me, Inc. has always helped people; especially those living in poverty. This is because Charles is no stranger to poverty. Charles was born into a hard working, poor West Virginian family that lived in a local coal mining area. Within these coal mining camps, everyone was poor.

Even though Charles and his family were poverty stricken, his mother insisted that he and his siblings graduate from high school and encouraged them to go onto college. After graduating from high school with honors, Charles landed a job with a local firm and began saving money in order to attend college. He first took courses at a local community college, and then later transferred to the University of Cincinnati. While attending college, he held a full time job.

It was during his college days, while working at General Electric, that he began to realize his purpose in life; to help others. It was at this time that Charles started saving sheets of discarded, colored paper that the company used as separator sheets from reports that were printed on high-speed printers. Knowing that needy children attending local schools could use the discarded, colored paper, Charles arranged to have the paper delivered to local schools.

During this time, Charles took his first trip abroad. He visited the Philippines, taking along a full box of the colored paper. This paper was given to a school in the Philippines where the school officials were very pleased to accept this gift due to the paper’s high cost in that area. It was during this trip that Charles saw a level of poverty that he had never seen before. In fact, the deficiency in which Charles experienced as a child was nothing compared to what he witnessed in the Philippines.

Charles Vanoy returned to the United States to continue his work and education, but he would never forget the disparity he encountered while abroad.
A few years later, Charles traveled to Africa. With the images still fresh in his mind of the Philippines, he took along boxes of clothing, school supplies and candy for the children. Even one of his two suitcases was packed with clothing for the needy children of the area. Before leaving Africa, many of the local artists gave Charles some of their artwork in order to sell it for them and wire the money back to Africa. For many of these artists, it was the first cash that they had seen in several months.

Upon returning from Africa, Charles Vanoy had planned another trip to the continent and loaded boxes with various items for the African children. During his second trip, the children began to beg for food, more clothing, school supplies and shoes. Charles bought food for the children each day that he was there, and provided some of the children with shoes, clothing and school supplies that he had brought along. Unfortunately he could not help all of the children during this trip; however he had promised them that he would send more shoes and clothing after he had returned to the States.

Today we are happy to report that this promise was kept, and several forty-foot, ocean-going containers of shoes, clothing and school supplies have been sent to these children in Africa. However, now that our organization has grown, we must seek donations to help us continue this work. We hope that you will make a donation today to help us continue our work both here at home and abroad.

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