I strongly believe that if people are cared for, communities are cared for, and am pleased to be able to contribute part proceeds from sales to these organizations...
Street Angels - since 1998, Julz & Co. has been supporting a family through this Vancouver-based, volunteer-driven grassroots international aid organization which helps impoverished women in the slums of Brazil keep their children off the streets, safe at home, healthy and in school. Concentrated in Dona Aurora, a small shantytown on the outskirts of Salvador, Bahia, Street Angels develops education and health care programs for children and their families, eliminates child labour by creating alternate sources of family income, strengthens marginalized communities and defends basic human rights and increases public awareness about the exploitation, abuse and murder of children who are forced by poverty to live and work in the streets. Donations are given monthly to support Rute, a little girl who lives with her mother and grandmother.
African Canadian Continuing Education Society - in June 2008, I traveled with to Kakamega, Kenya to visit and photograph schools build by ACCES and the students who attend them. What these children do to make it to school every day is an extraordinary accomplishment. Many are so hungry they can barely sit on the rough wooden benches, and rely on the one bowl of gruel the school can afford to give them, as the only meal they will have that day. Poverty, disease, toxic water, violence and physical hardships seem insurmountable challenges, but the belief in an education to create any possible future keeps many of them going. If you are inspired to help, please contact ACCES, in Vancouver.
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation - all profits from the sale of the Miranda pendant, numerous donations of product to silent auctions and events, and cash donations.
Tsunami Relief Fund - Julz and Co. and friends donated money to buy a new longtail boat for a fisherman on Ko Lanta, Thailand. Thousands of boats were lost, destroyed or damaged, leaving local people without a means to feed their families.
The Rick Hansen Foundation to support research and quality of life programs for people with spinal cord injury.
The Union Gospel Mission to feed and clothe the homeless on the downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Pacific Assistant Dogs Society - a non-profit organization that trains dogs to help people with a disability other than blindness.
Life is measured not by what we get, but by what we give.
Julie Prescott
Designer, Julz & Company Inc.
