Last Wednesday, August 10th, Delaney Tosh, Carolyne Taylor and the Dirty Wall Project’s Kane Ryan, organized the launch of the Girls Can Be Women’s Collaborative project. The beautiful evening sun streaming though the large windows of one of my favourite venues in Victoria, the Union Pacific Coffee Company, set the stage for an inspiring event. I encourage everyone to check out the Dirty Wall Project and learn about all the amazing things happening in the slums of Mumbai with the help of the project. The Girls Can Be collaborative is the DWP’s newest initiative. The idea behind this project is to allow more young girls the opportunity to go to school by creating an income alternative for the families, in the form of a women’s cooperative, creating a safe and healthy environment for women to gather and create goods to be sold internationally, gaining them a job and a fair wage. The cooperative will be annexed to a school already in place, and allow the young girls of the women’s collaborative to attend school while their mothers are at work. Part of the mandate of the collaborative will also be to donate a percentage of their goods to other women in need in Canada. Absolutely amazing. If you are interested in getting involved in the project, please contact Carolyne Taylor (carolyne@24carrotlearning.com, 250-479-4235). There is a group leaving for India in January, to visit the slum and help with the collaborative and other projects organized by DWP.
For the complete set of images from the evening, please go to the Girls Can Be facebook page. Thank you!
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