Our own Molly Pitts founded a non-profit called Hope by Twelve http://www.hopebytwelve.org/mudula-water/ with the goal of empowering adolescent girls in situations of poverty. One of their main projects right now is to raise money to bring clean water to the village Mudula so that young girls will not have to miss school and other opportunities to fetch water.
Molly is going to Ethiopia next Friday, November 11. She will be visiting AHOPE for Children, a non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the children of Ethiopia, with a primary emphasis on caring for orphans infected with HIV. In Addis Ababa, AHOPE's two pleasant, well-staffed Children's Homes care exclusively for orphans who are HIV+ and have no extended family to care for them. Many of these children are now finding their forever families through adoption. AHOPE's Community Outreach Program enables orphaned children to remain within their extended families and culture, while receiving medical care, education, food, and other services. For information on how you can help, contact them at http://www.ahopeforchildren.org/
Molly plans to bring something "uplifting" for the kids. They gave her a list of items needed for donation and one of those items is balloons. She is bringing a little pump that blows up simple balloons - water balloons would also work.
So - if you'd like to donate a pack or two of balloons, bring them to the studio and leave them in the basket on the bench. She says she'll be able to fit A LOT into her bag!
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