This blog is about activism, and I would like to encourage others to take action! This holiday season I took action and I would like to reflect and share with the my audience what I did. I took part in a project for one of my classes with 3 other girls. Together we collected from students at my University approximately 100 dollars. With that money we raised we bought supplies such as hats, gloves, shampoo, conditioner, hair accessories, cleaning products, hair brushes, Advil and other items to donate to a woman's shelter. We chose to donate to the Providence Rescue Mission, where they give women a clean place to stay, a shower, a meal, and an opportunity to listen to a sermon. This was important to us because we are so much more fortunate then the women who literally live right down the street from us. While researching this project we learned of statistics that shocked us and hit close to home:
-Globally: 80% of humanity lives on less than 10 dollars a day.
-Nationally: 29% of women are in jobs that pay too little to support a family.
-Locally: in 2007 a reported a 12% of people in RI live in poverty equaling 122,128.
To be able to give back to the women in our community who have found themselves either just alone, or facing struggles such as drug addiction left me and my friends humbled. Below is a few pictures of the shelter, and the things we collected.
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