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The "Sewing Ladies" as we affectionately call them are all hard working ladies wanting to earn an income and provide for their families. No one feels good receiving hand-outs. All of these ladies want to earn their income and feel the dignity that comes with earning.
There are five ways you can support their desire to provide for themselves and their families ...
- Shop here at Haitian Creations on-line store.
- Spread the word about Haitian Creations.com to friends and family and coworkers.
- Host a "Purse Party" at your home and share the work of these ladies and the larger work of Heartline Ministries. Your advocacy for these women makes a tremendous difference!
- When in Haiti stop by one of the two stores selling these products. Buy!
- Email bill.moseley@gmail.com to get a code ~ Add a button to your blog to promote through social media.
In other news ...
Yesterday Sterline, one of the sewing ladies, gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
The Heartline Women's Program consists of these branches:
-Literacy Classes-
-Sewing School-
-Jewelry making classes-
-Contract sewing of products for website-
-Harbor House-
-Prenatal Care/Class-
-Labor and Delivery-
-Early Childhood Development Class-
3 comments:
Hi Tara,
I am in Haiti week after next. Where are the 2 stores? Would love to pass by and stock up on birthday and early xmas presents.
Best from Germany,
Alexandra
Is this connected with the ApParent project or is it just similar? I have been at their website several times recently.
Laurel
Laurel, thanks for the question... I'm going to answer for Troy and Tara, since they totally left you hanging and never responded to your question. Rude.
Are we connected? Enough that I can call them rude on their own website and they'll know that I'm joking. Actually Troy is my best friend.
When we started the ApParent Project, people told us immediately to get to know John and Beth McHoul at Heartline since our visions and philosophies are so similar. You could say that Heartline gave us a clear answer to our question of whether what we had in mind was possible. Back then Heartline was also an orphanage and Dan & Sheila Lynch were running the artisan program at there. They continue to be an encouragement and inspiration to us at ApParent as well.
Other than friendship connections, our actual operations are at this point completely separate and we work in very different areas of Port Au Prince. H-line is in Tabarre, we are in Delmas. H-line does a lot more general adult education in preventative health and literacy. They have a house for communal care of young single moms, we help get similar moms into more traditional homes in a normal Haitian community. Their artisan program started with purses and has branched into jewelry, ours started with jewelry and has branched into purses. We try not to have anything too similar in style or design to each other so as not to create competition. H-line also has a huge midwivery aspect that we don't do. We both do relief work when needed, but not as a primary emphasis. H-line has been here much longer than AP. We both have the central passion of keeping kids with their families and helping families live full, healthy, and dignified lives. Within this central commitment, H-line probably has motherhood as a larger emphasis, whereas we have artisan economic development as a larger emphasis and try to employ as many men (or couples) as possible. Same heart, same central ideas & philosophies, different emphasis & giftings. I hope this helps. Thanks for your interest!
-Corrigan Clay @ Apparent
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