Thanks to your generous donations, we’ve purchased and sent new shoes, underwear, fleece blankets and sweatshirts to migrant children and their families in Texas. Working through the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy, our goal is to provide basic clothing and other essentials for some of the thousands of impoverished migrant children crossing the U.S. border into Texas and Arizona. Many of the children, fleeing violence and poverty in Central America, are arriving unaccompanied, with only the clothes on their backs. Your donations made a difference!
Together with bloggers from the beauty blog Pretty Connected, we’ve just held our first Share Your Beauty product drive giving event! Pretty Connected brought together professionals from the beauty industry to donate products and fill 100 tote bags with soaps, makeup, nail polish, hair products and more. The bags, along with 22 other boxes of donated products, were delivered to the Henry Street Settlement in New York City to be given to women in homeless and domestic violence shelters as gifts on Mother’s Day. Our goal is to bring a little beauty and dignity back into the lives of women who are struggling to overcome extreme poverty. Read more.
