Im just sharing with you my thoughts my desire to help~ There are always opportunities to help those here in our own communities and families yes this is true but along with that I wanted to find a way i could give of myself to help those who are not in a country that are afforded the opportunities that we have for assistance.
As Artist going into the Holiday Season i wanted to use my art to bring awareness and help those less fortunate. The smallest act of kindness could change a life.
Id like to share
Second Mile Haiti
#EMPOWERMENT # SUSTAINABILITY
Hungry people particularly women are
systematically denied the right to meet their
basic needs due to deeply entrenched social
conditions. Ending hunger requires restoring
people’s ability to secure and protect their own
basic human rights — to break the inherited
social constraints that hold them back. This is
what we mean by “empowerment.”
SECOND MILE HAITI
began as the vision of two young women, Amy Syres and Jenn Schenk. After working at the Haitian orphanage for over a year, they realized that taking children from their families wasn't sustainable answer to the cyclical problem of poverty and undernutrition . Second mile Haiti was born in the 2012 as a result of a desire to offer sustainable assistance and empowering opportunities to women who cannot afford food or medical care; to go beyond band-aids and handouts, towards lasting solutions that lift families out of extreme poverty.
I just recently made my first purchase of their beautiful paper beads and love them. I will continue to do so and use them in my art in hopes to bring a little more awareness to help this amazing effort to help build Sustainability & Empowerment in Haiti.
Paper bead earrings
Kathy jo
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