here are a few suggestions i have for you as we enter this season:
At Noonday Collection, we believe every child belongs in a family. We advocate for the orphan by:
- Providing jobs that create a pathway out of poverty for families. A stable income means a family is less likely to abandon their child.
- Help families raise money for their own adoptions. We give 10% of trunk show sales directly to the adoptive family when they host a trunk show.
- Aside from donating 10% towards qualified adoptive families, Noonday Collection also gives towards orphan care and prevention.
to read more about noonday and the women who make the products, click the link above.
Sari Bari seeks the sustainable restoration of red light communities and the prevention of the exploitation of women and children in the commercial sex trade.
What restoration means to us
Sari Bari does not rescue women, but rather seeks restoration for those who have been trafficked or held in the sex trade by poverty and lack of empowerment. Approximately 65 percent of women in the red light areas no longer qualify for legal action in the form of rescue. While they were likely first trafficked in their teen years, many are now middle-aged and are trapped by circumstances that have bound them since childhood.
What prevention means to us
Helping to prevent new girls from being trafficked into the sex trade is the most effective way to combat sexual slavery. We hope to offer high-risk girls an opportunity to life-giving education and work that will protect them from ever entering the sex trade. To meet this goal, Sari Bari has located its third production site in a village that is a high trafficking area of India. Young women ages 17-25 and living in poverty are offered jobs at this site.
Additionally, up to 20 percent of Sari Bari jobs at our locations within the city are given to at-risk women who live in the red-light districts. These are usually daughters of women currently in the sex trade, who are uneducated and at a high-risk of being lured or forced into prostitution.
---to learn more about sari bari and meet the artisans, click on the link above.
My name is Heather Hamilton and in 2007 my second born child, a sweet son named Samuel, passed away from a devastating form of bacterial meningitis. He was six weeks old. During Samuel's joyful life, much of which was spent in the pediatric intensive care unit of our local children's hospital, my family and I learned the importance of finding a sense of normality amidst the crisis. We also learned that as a parent of a critically ill child, you often feel helpless because there is so little care and comfort you can offer your own child. That's why we created the Joyful Life Library, as a way to bring the comfort of home to the hospital.
We believe that reading a favorite story to a child is an act of love that's comforting to the child and the caregiver alike, and is especially important when life has been turned upside down because of a little one's hospitalization. We know the importance of being able to sit and read a book to your child, just like you would do at home, regardless of all the tubes and beeping machines, which is why we've set out to create libraries for pediatric intensive care patients at children's hospitals across the country.
We believe that reading a favorite story to a child is an act of love that's comforting to the child and the caregiver alike, and is especially important when life has been turned upside down because of a little one's hospitalization. We know the importance of being able to sit and read a book to your child, just like you would do at home, regardless of all the tubes and beeping machines, which is why we've set out to create libraries for pediatric intensive care patients at children's hospitals across the country.
heather is the owner of this shop and she has some wonderful prints available. here are a couple of my favorites. all proceeds from this shop go toward a project she started called joyful life library which provides books to children's hospitals around the nation. to read more about the project go to www.joyfullifelibrary.com to shop go to the link above.
this one is mine obviously, but i'm still going to pull for it. the Lord has been tugging on my heart in a big way for orphans. for the time being, not knowing where He will lead us in the future, i will be donating 20 percent of all sales to world orphans.
World Orphans is committed to rescuing orphaned and abandoned children, strengthening the local church, and impacting communities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through church-based, family-focused programs.
We seek to equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphaned and vulnerable children.
to learn more about the organization and watch some videos head to the link above.
here are a couple of new products. head over to the shop to check out more.
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