Imagine a world with us where every tragedy was met with a helping hand.

For the month of February we will highlight our partners working towards bringing aid to people in tragedy or crisis. We are so excited to share about these 2 amazing organizations that we believe wholeheartedly in. We hope that you will enjoy this month learning about how we can support people bringing aid to conflict areas.

For each organization, there are a couple necklaces that support them. Every time this necklace is sold $5 goes directly to making a difference in that organization.

Love Does

Love Does currently has projects in Nepal, Somalia, Uganda, India and Iraq. Love Does sees a need or someone is crisis and has created projects because love does that kind of stuff. We are so excited to tell you more about them and the places they work. 

In Uganda, Love Does runs three different projects. The first being safe homes, they have two safe houses in the capital of Uganda for underage, sexually abused and exploited girls. The second project being their primary and secondary school in Northern Uganda with 500 students. Third being, a project called Launch that provides assistance to the people who have graduated through their school. 

In India, Love Does works to fight trafficking in India through investigations, surveillance, brothel raids, and working with local law enforcement to conduct raids on brothels with underage children, arrest the perpetrators and traffickers, rescue the children and place them in safe houses.   

In Nepal, Love Does opened a home for young, orphaned girls to actually experience what it's like to be welcomed into a family and loved like one as well.

In Iraq, Love Does has a school providing education to 70 students and will continue to grow. This school is an English language school and also an after school program. Love Does is also working on supporting people living in refugee camps who have fled ISIS. 

In Somalia, Love Does opened up a safe house for women who are victims of gender based violence. The home has become a refuge for the women where they are able to come for safety, medical attention, counseling and therapy. In addition we provide them with job training skills to help build their lives back.

Check out more on their website. 

Preemptive Love

Preemptive Love is on the front lines of places experiencing conflict and war. 

Their heart is to meet these conflict areas with love that goes beyond any borders, walls, or barriers we try to put up. Where no one else goes, they go. 

They are lending a helping hand to people fleeing war zones. They are doing this in 6 ways. 

1) Life Saving Heart Surgery. Violence unmakes communities and healthcare systems, leaving children born with life-threatening heart defects exposed and vulnerable. PL provides lifesaving heart surgeries to children born in conflict-zones and thousands of hours of hands-on training for local medical teams so they can be the remedy long after they're gone.

2) Emergency Relief. ISIS has displaced and victimized tens of thousands of men, women, and children across Iraq. PL provides emergency food, shelter, and supplies to those families on the run and lifesaving support to those still behind enemy lines. PL's programs ensure ISIS won’t have the final word.

3) Empowerment Grants. For the tens of thousands victimized by ISIS, they don’t need a hand-out, they need a hand-up. PL changes the way the world engages polarizing conflict by empowering victims and turning them into small business owners, employers, and sustainable sources of revenue and hope for their families and local community.

4) Education for at-risk children. Every day, children in conflict-zones are exposed to violence, sexual predators, extremist ideologies, and unsafe working conditions. PL puts children back in the classroom, protecting them from every-day risks and opening them up to every-day opportunities for education and a future.

5) Peacemaking in Conflict-Zones. Peace isn't just the absence of war. It's the presence of restored relationships once the gunfire stops. PL steps into active conflict-zones and create space for ongoing dialogues about the root causes of conflict, grievances, and opportunities for forgiveness and reconciliation in the political, religious, and social sector.

6) Counsel Policymakers. Peace may happen in the big moments, but it's waged in the small ones. PL is actively providing counsel and guidance to policymakers and global influencers who have the ability to help change the way the world engages polarizing conflict-zones, by choosing to love anyway, show up, and get out of the way.

To learn more go to their website. 

Imagine a world with us where every person was treated with dignity and respect.

As we move into the new year we are moving into some new things with Lovishly.

For the month of January we will highlight our partners working towards justice in the world. We are so excited to share about these 5 amazing organizations that we believe wholeheartedly in. We hope that you will enjoy this month learning about how we can support people seeking justice around the world.

For each organization, there is one necklace that represents them. Every time this necklace is sold $5 goes directly to making a difference in that organization.

Shear Love International

Shear Love International is working full time in Thailand. Shear Love trains women from all walks of life. Whether coming from a background of poverty, abuse, exploitation, or trafficking, they believe all women deserve an education and an opportunity to thrive.

Shear Love International is designed to educate and empower women by providing an education in hair design. Equipping women with vocational knowledge, financial training, and personal development will give them an opportunity to support their families in a dignified way. Shear Love’s full spectrum, faith-based, educational beauty school program gives women the chance to succeed and focus forward on their future.

Our “do justice” necklace gives back to them.

Check out their website for more details and how you can get involved.

Respire Haiti 

Respire Haiti works in Haiti encouraging, empowering and educating Restaveks, orphans and vulnerable children.

Restavek is a French term that means child slave or domestic servant. Many children in Haiti are sent by their parents to be a Restavek. Families feel that this their only option because of the lack of resources to care for the child.

In 2011, Respire Haiti opened a school for these vulnerable children to receive education. Now in 2017, they have over 500 students and employ over 100 local Haitians. They also run a medical clinic that serves the families and children attending their school.

Our “redeem” necklace gives back to them.

Check out their website for more details and how you can get involved.

Wipe Every Tear

Wipe Every Tear exists to provide women working in the bars with the hope of freedom. Through genuine relationships and the building of trust Wipe Every Tear helps facilitate these women’s transition from the sex trade to a new life of freedom.

Wipe Every Tear provides safe homes that the women move into providing physical, emotional and spiritual health and healing, Wipe Every Tear commits to providing everything they need for the hope of a new future. One of the ways that they help is by providing assistance to receive an education. In many areas, a college degree or vocational training means the ability to find a job that can sustain a family for life. Therefore, Wipe Every Tear believes that education is key to breaking the chains of sex trafficking.

Our “be free” necklace gives back to them.

Check out their website for more details and how you can get involved. 

Seattle Union Gospel Mission

Seattle Union Gospel Mission provides emergency care and long-term recovery services to hurting and homeless people in the greater Seattle area.

They work throughout different issues in their city with many programs to assist everyone in need. Some of these programs being combating hunger, homelessness, poverty, and addiction. They are not just feeding people or giving them shelter for the night, but going beyond to combat the root of these problems. They are reaching into the dark corners and dead end streets to guide men and women down a path away from poverty and into a better future.

Our “just love” necklace gives back to them. 

Check out their website for more details and how you can get involved.

Set Free Alliance

Set Free Alliance works in India to alleviate the effects of child slavery on the population of India.

Set Free Alliance is providing support to 1,400 children that have been rescued from child slavery or abandonment. Set Free Alliance is a partnership of businesses, individuals, churches and foundations to provide food, clothing, shelter, medicine, education, age appropriate vocational training, and spiritual nurturing to children in India.

Set Free Alliance hopes to encourage a generation of kids to know their worth and be able to change their world for the better. We are excited to partner with them. 

Our “India” necklace gives back to them.

Check out their website for more details and how you can get involved.

Our current campaign is featuring Together We Rise. Together We Rise is a non-profit organization comprised of motivated young adults and former foster youth. Together We Rise was started by college students who felt like they could do something to help the foster care system in America. TWR’s vision is to improve the lives of foster children in America, who often find themselves forgotten and neglected by the public. They collaborate with community partners to bring resources to foster youth and use service-learning activities to educate volunteers on issues surrounding the foster care system.

TWR works with hundreds of foster agencies, social workers, CASA advocates, and other partners to bring their programs to foster youth across the nation. Their foundation has allowed us to provide thousands of foster youth across the country with new bicycles, college supplies, and suitcases so that children do not have to travel from home to home with their belongings in a trash bag.

What we love about Together We Rise is that they want to make sure that these children and youth feel LOVED and CARED for. The constant change of homes can cause a lot of hurt in the lives of these children and youth but TWR is showing up to tell them that they are not forgotten. One of the coolest things about TWR is our opinion is they are people just like us wanting to make a difference. On their website is says the following, “We are advocates. We are young, ambitious, humanitarians, artists, and students. We are unique individuals who are ready to see change in this world and are eager to pursue it.” WE LOVE THIS.

Join us as we give back $5 to what they are doing.

Watch this video below to learn more.

Information taken from TWR website.

Imagine a world where every child belongs to a forever family.

At any given time, there are 100,000 children in foster care who are waiting to be adopted.

This month we are giving back to foster care and adoption. We will highlight different organizations doing great work in the foster care system and also share stories of adoptive families. We want to show you that you can be involved in improving the lives of children in foster care in the United States. The stories and people we will be sharing our people just like you. Join us and help spread awareness about the children living in foster care awaiting a forever family. 

We cannot do this without you. 

Thanks for being a world changer. 

Photo courtesy Together We Rise (an awesome foster care support org.)