Help Me Help Girls & Women of Colour

Community

May 14

I am fundraising to lend a helping hand to uplift girls and women of colour. The funds will be used as seed money to create an organization that helps girls and women of colour by creating community outreach events as well as providing resources and information around health and well being, including mental health and financial well being.

This work is personal. The picture you see here is of my mom, my older and younger sisters and me. There's wee me in the green dress. We were very close. They are no longer with me. So, I look at this picture often to inspire me onward to do this work.

When I think back and sense into family memories, although they were functioning, productive and successful in their own lives, there were signs that my mother and older sister were challenged by depression as a result of the challenges of simply being black in America. My little sister, my first best friend, took her own life. This work is personal also for me having experienced first hand the inside of a mental health facility after being involuntarily admitted for attempting suicide myself. And then turning my life around. And now sharing my story and learning focusing helping others do the same.

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This organization will collaborate with partners with similar values to create offerings such as:

*Music and arts in schools, libraries, community centers, low-income housing, homeless shelters as well as traditional music and arts venues.

*Speaker events of women of colour figures like writers, poets and community building thinkers and organizers that encourage self-care, mental well being and financial well being.

*Mentoring through internships

*Grants

*Scholarships

*& more...

It's been quite the journey to turn pain into purpose. There are many loved ones to thank, who I cannot thank enough, for their love and support. I am grateful to be here with you now in this moment feeling as I do so incredibly inspired to inspire others to choose their lives.