Our Products

Introducing - Freedom Wings! Each necklace represents the freedom that comes when someone is provided a small loan - Hope charms are hand crafted in Haiti! 100% of the proceeds from our necklaces and bracelets will go towards providing loans. We have necklaces in black leather, turquoise and brown. They hang approximately 20 inches and look great with everything. There's something to be said to wear a piece of jewelry, or to be given one as a gift and 100% goes towards impacting the lives of others forever. Now that's timeless jewelry.

Our bracelets also range in style and color. These will be sold exclusively at our events. We are going to be selling these at our Sole Sister parties and the holiday bazaars we are trying to get in to. Note to selves: Next year, start thinking about all the holiday bazaars WAY BEFORE the middle of November. We missed the cutoff on all the 'good' ones but we'll remember for next year! In the mean time, Alisha and I will be sitting in my kitchen making more products. Like we've said - we are hands on girls. We do it all ourselves. Of course, if someone would like to help we would gladly accept :)

Getting the Word Out

We are crazy excited to share with you our most recent PR. Thank you to Katie from Northside Woman magazine for the incredible article about what we are doing with Love a Child and the marketplace in Haiti. You can read the article by clicking on the link under the cover photo :)

 

Northside Woman November 2013

To Infinity and Beyond (or Fort Myers - same difference)

I just need to vent for a second ok, maybe longer than that. It is highly frustrating to run a non profit without the money necessary to do what is in your heart to do. We have boxes of clothes and Crocs to take to Haiti. Love a Child is allowing us space on a container but we have to get all our things to Ft. Myers, Florida. Alisha and I are planning on renting a truck and taking everything down in one whirlwind trip. Uhaul wanted to charge us Alisha's first born and Enterprise is willing to work with us big time. But even their best is still too much for us to spend and yet we don't have a choice. If only we knew someone who had a moving truck we could borrow. Oh well. We are get er done girls and we'll get this done too. 20 hours of drive time in 42 hours. I know I'll be chugging the 5 hour energy drinks!

We have 20 boxes full of NEW Crocs and clothes for men, women and children of all ages and sizes. People we've never met heard about what we are doing and donated clothes. We have thousands of dollars worth of stuff to give away. How fun it is going to be to physically hand out all these goodies when we go back to Haiti. Hopefully with our husbands and some of our board members too!

On a completely wonderful note - well wonderful is a relative term but it this case it is wonderful because the people in the truck division of Enterprise once again worked with us to bring our cost down even lower than before. Still expensive but not outrageous. So without further ado - I give you a view of the killer ride we'll be driving down to Ft. Myers. Don't be jealous.

I thought it was going to be more creepy kidnapper van-ish so I'm pleasantly surprised it only looks like a nerd mobile.

So we certainly had an adventure - hadn't even gotten out of Atlanta when a piece of plywood flew up from the road from the truck in front of us and came zooming towards us and hit the hood and took out the driver side mirror. A few more inches to the right and the odds are very high that I wouldn't be writing this update. About a half hour later Alisha gets a call from one of our board members who says we have been on her heart all night and that she had been praying for us and that there was a battle over even getting these clothes and shoes down to Florida. Alisha explained to her what had happened and thanked her for praying. It is so nice to know we have people like that on our team!

One more interesting thing - I never get the insurance offered by a rental car place but for some reason I did. Needless to say, when we dropped off the van, Robb, the Enterprise guy said, "well I do tell people if you are going to get the insurance you might as well make it count. You guys certainly did. To the tune of $2800 in damage." Thank God we got the insurance and that didn't come out of our pocket!

After 22 hours of driving in the span of 36 hours we are back and exhausted but feeling accomplished.