I had the wonderful opportunity to work with this very new organization called Wallets For Water. Using donated neckties, volunteers and a deep heart for serving people, Wallets For Water is serving the Harvest India ministry and building wells in India to provide clean water. For every 200 wallets sold, a well is built in a village that would not otherwise have access to clean water.
I felt blessed to help out this cause.
A group of people gathered together and set up assembly lines to produce the wallets that will be sold. I came with my sewing machine in hand, ready to do my part.
Here is the one that came home with me 🙂
Dr. Suresh Kumar of Harvest India along with Jeff Gokee
While wallets are not available to buy online just yet, we’re working on it. If you would like to support this cause and buy your very own, please email me at chickswhogiveahoot@yahoo.com
I blog for a ton of reasons like having a creative outlet, sharing my projects, connecting with other people, but it seems this little space has given me something I didn’t ever really think of until recently. A platform.
In addition to my regular blogging posts, I have decided to add a new feature. I’m calling it “Soapbox.” I imagine myself standing on a large soapbox in the middle of a busy intersection, crowded with people and a megaphone in hand shouting to all who will listen and demanding attention.
There has always been a special place in my heart for non-profits. I even went to school with the intention of working in community relations, so that I could be involved in getting the word out. This feature will be a way for me to shed light on organizations and people who are doing amazing things for this world and deserve the recognition. This way I can invite everyone to join in their efforts and we can all initiate change.
To kick off my new feature… One Day Without Shoes
Tom’s Shoes is asking everyone to consider what it would be like to go barefoot all of the time by spending one day without shoes. Tomorrow (April 5th 2011) will be the annual One Day Without Shoes campaign in an effort to raise awareness about the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child’s life by taking off our own. The idea is that not wearing your shoes will produce curiosity from others which will motivate conversation, action and eventually change.
In developing countries, children must walk miles without shoes putting them at risk for injury, infection and soil-transmitted diseases. All of these are 100% preventable by wearing shoes. Many children are also denied access to education as shoes are required to attend school.
OKAY… This is how you can get involved!
Visit this website for more information on setting up your own team of non-shoe wearing participants.
If by any chance you’re in the Phoenix area, our favorite little shop Frances is hosting a barefoot walk to Lux Coffee Shop at 9am. Register by calling 602.279.5467 and join the walk.
I hope that you will get involved any way you can and help bring some light to such a worthy cause.
Here is the one that came home with me 🙂
Dr. Suresh Kumar of Harvest India along with Jeff Gokee
Sara(h) Darlene 