For Philippines With Love

I just read about the For Philippines With Love campaign on Sandy's blog. I stand along every blogger who is participating in the Bloggers Day of Silence to bring awareness to the calamity that hit the Philippines. To learn more about the campaign, you can click here.

If you're interested in helping, you can find ways at the bottom of yesterday's post.

As a Filipino, I am overwhelmed by the support my home country has been receiving. We truly will never forget all of this.

Help Fight Against Sex Trafficking

Yesterday, the ladies in the office were called to a meeting by our office director. She gave us these cute bracelets from 3StrandsGlobal.com. It's an organization that helps fight against sex trafficking around the world. It was such a sweet and thoughtful surprise. :)

Click HERE to browse their bracelets.

All of 3StrandsGlobal's bracelets feature a red seed, and these pods represent a pretty interesting story:

The red seeds featured on all 3Strands bracelets can be discovered if one looks into the pods, which grow on Sandalwood trees, native to Cambodia. The colorless pods eventually dry up and fall to the ground and are forgotten, stepped over like trash as they blow away in the wind.  To Don Brewster, the founder of AIM, these pods are representative of how the Cambodian culture sees a child coming out of a brothel – as trash. But inside these dried up pods are beautiful, glossy, scarlet seeds that in their natural beauty, created by God, represents the beauty in each of the girls who have been freed, loved and empowered with a hope for the future. As each 3Strands bracelet is made by hand, with love, the girls incorporate the red Sandlewood seed in the design reminding them of their beauty within as they proudly sign their name to each bracelet.

So before you go shopping this weekend, check out their bracelets, you might find something you like. :)

Project HOPE

I've always wanted to blog about a non-profit organization and one of my co-workers has been working with one so I thought I'd write about it. Project HOPE, works to make health care available for people around the globe. If you guys follow me on Twitter, you've probably seen me tweet about them :)

Here's their most recent installment of their series of short films documenting their work. The film tells the story of HOPE volunteer and physical therapist Claude Hillel. Having seen the devastation that immediately followed the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and lost several of his relatives in the disaster, Claude left New York and traveled to the battered country where he would change countless lives for the better amidst unimaginable destruction.

Take a moment to watch, and spread HOPE by sharing the video to Facebook, Twitter or by email.

You can find Project HOPE here:

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