009-Global Heroes News - April 2022

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April • 2022

Honor Mom with a Gift That Gives Back This Mother’s Day, share the love with all the mothers in your life with gifts that give back! These companies support community initiatives and give back to charitable causes and efforts. From home decor to accessories, the moms in your life will adore these charitable gifts. No matter who you’re shopping for, these gifts are sure to keep on giving.

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SURI ALPACA SLIPPERS—$198

Founded by the Smiley family in 1869, the Mohonk Mountain House is nestled in Hudson Valley, boasting a 30,000-square-foot eco-friendly getaway. The spa at Monok Mountain House includes 16 treatment rooms, relaxation verandas, a solarium, and so much more. From April to late May, the spa is undergoing a refresh, but services are still available onsite. At the spa, they use all organic products, and utilize sustainable practices and mindsets. Give mom the gift of relaxation this Mothers Day!

Selling fashion-forward accessories and home goods, Accompany is working towards bringing new economic opportunities to artisans worldwide. Their Suri Alpaca Slippers are made locally in Peru with 100 percent baby alpaca fur and microsuede outsoles. The slippers are incredibly soft and luxurious and are handmade with alpaca fur that is ethically sourced and sheared with care. By giving the Suri Alpaca Slippers, you are helping to support a small community of alpaca farmers and artisans.

BASIC NEEDS SCRATCH TICKETS—STARTING AT $22

KOKO - LILAC VEGAN WORKBAG—$311

LottoLove is the first scratchoff ticket with a social mission and the only lotto that makes everyone a winner. Instead of winning money, the prizes are charitable donations—giving resources like literacy tools, solar lights, clean water, and nutritious meals. To support people in need directly, LottoLove works with eight charities—Solaraid, LitWorld, Rise Against Hunger, Water is Life, Global G.L.O.W., Running Start, Camfed, and Womankind—to support people worldwide.

GUNAS is America’s first 100 percent vegan fashion brand dedicated to ending animal cruelty in the name of fashion. Their Koko Collection is made in honor of famous gorilla Hanabiko “Koko” who is known for being the first gorilla to learn sign language. The lilac purse is handcrafted with premium ostrich embossed rubber fabric, textured cotton lining, and zipper pockets for the most luxurious and fashionable accessory.

LIGHT UP A HOUSEHOLD—$38

Available in a variety of different scents, the Light Up A Household candle is hand-poured by women artisans and refugees, and for each candle purchased, 672 hours of solar light is donated to a family living with no access to electricity. Each of the fragrances available are phthalate-free and picked with care and intention. 548 million people in Africa have no access to electricity, and by purchasing a candle from OneGrid, they hope to light up every home, school and clinic in Sub-Saharan Africa with clean, safe and renewable light.

Bags of Light, Made with Soul RAYE MOCIOIU

Growing up on the outskirts of Mombasa, Kenya, sisters and entrepreneurs Salima and Samara witnessed how so many children their age could not do their homework. “Our mom was an advocate for educating girls,” Salima shares. “Not having access to clean, safe light meant that these girls would not have the grades to make it into secondary school, causing them to drop out and not have an income or job to look forward to.” Each night, the families in villages without electricity would have to use kerosene, a costly and carcinogenic jet fuel that 1.2 billion people use as their only source of light when the sun goes down. While attending McGill University in Quebec, Canada, Salima discovered that with solar-powered electricity, households would have a safe and less expensive alternative to kerosene. Moreover, girls like those she knew in Kikambala

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would be able to do their homework each night. Her realization led her to create The Soular Backpack. “The intention is that as a child walks to school, a lamp in their bag gets charged through a solar panel on their backpack,” says Salima. “When they get home, they have access to clean, safe light and can do their homework and read, so they are empowered

to take control of their futures.” At home, the children can connect the battery pack to an LED lamp, providing light in homes without electricity for about five hours. To date, around 10,000 children now have access to light every night. To fund the project, Salima launched SAMARA Bags in 2017, a fashion brand selling simple, elegant, and cruelty-free vegan leather bags. Named after her

sister Samara, Salima started with just $500 and a production run of 10 bags—and it proved to be all she needed. “Our goal was to find a way to keep our first not-for-profit, The Soular Backpack, alive in a sustainable way, which piqued our interest in the power of brands and communities in creating impact in the world. From the night we launched in 2017, and our first 25 bags that sold out overnight, to now having our products in the hands of over 175,000 people, our North Star has always been to create impact in the world and to build a brand that makes the world better in as many ways as we can, all while donating 10 percent of our profits to The Soular Backpack.” The two sisters, who run the company in memory of their mother, create timeless and chic styles made from innovative and planet-friendly materials. Their goal is to one day pivot SAMARA to be entirely plant-based, using only sustainable materials with the

ADVERTORIAL

The Power of HOPE Having experienced the power of hope during a twelve-year addiction to drugs and alcohol and having seen the impact that hope can have on people’s lives, Dr. Rosalind Tompkins and her organization, Mothers in Crisis, Inc. launched a national public awareness campaign in 2018, beginning with the designation of April as the National Month of Hope through the National Day Calendar. In honor of April National Month of Hope 2022, Mothers In Crisis is implementing the Hope, Pass It On Campaign by providing practical tools and training to help people become more hopeful and share hope with others. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. As we continue to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic, many have lost loved ones and need practical ways to stay hopeful. Mothers In Crisis provides practical self-help tools through the practice of hopeology for people to become more hopeful and spread hope with others.

Hope is needed now more than ever as we navigate the current crisis our nation is facing today because of the Coronavirus pandemic. “Whether you’ve lost a job or a loved one, or you’re experiencing general feelings of despair in these turbulent times, hope can give you strength, and as long as there is breath in your body, there is still hope,” says Dr. Rosalind Tompkins. This April and beyond, we encourage everyone to embrace hope because studies show that hopeful people excel in life, live longer, and live well. In 2021 Mothers In Crisis launched a successful Balls for Hope Campaign, spreading hope to front-line workers and others by providing stress balls of hope to individuals and organizations. Some of the groups that received the balls of hope include school teachers, students, administrators, nurses, healthcare workers, residents of nursing homes, hospitals, law enforcement, and many others in need of hope. In addition to the stress balls, Mothers In Crisis also provided hundreds of care packages to those in need.

Another way that Mothers In Crisis spreads hope is through the HOPEE (Helping Others Practice Enduring Empowerment) Awards given during April National Month of Hope to those who exemplify excellence by empowering and spreading hope to others through their various occupations and initiatives. Challenging people to ‘think hope’ and ‘make hope connections,’ Mothers In Crisis Hope Campaign has turned into a powerful movement and is now international, with individuals in Pakistan and other countries adopting the tenets of the ‘Hope Campaign’ and celebrating April as their National Month of Hope.

FIVE TENETS OF HOPE CAMPAIGN • HOPE stands for Helping Others Practice Empowerment • Hope for Self • Hope for the Family • Hope for/within the Community • Hope for the Nation and World

least amount of processing—a mission that requires creativity and unconventional thinking. Looking for a premium feel with a positive environmental impact, the sisters started experimenting with coconut husks and pineapple leather before discovering apple leather—made from apple skins that are a waste byproduct of the juicing industry mixed with PU (that acts as a binding agent). Working with a small factory in Europe, the sisters created the Apple Leather Mini out of this material! “We are excited to be playing a part in the future of fashion and what that entails in terms of innovation, materials, and science,” Salima says. “We’ve created products with apple skins, castor seeds, recycled ocean plastics, and recycled plastic bottles, and we’re only getting started. Our dream is to one day have a factory in Kenya, so that we can provide employment to the parents of the children who receive Soular Backpacks in the village where we grew up.”

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The idea is to apply these tenets throughout the entire year in one’s daily life but to pay special homage to hope during April. People are encouraged to demonstrate hope in action. Hopeologist—trademarked with the U.S . Patent and Trademark Department, Class 35—it is defined as: promoting public awareness of hope by

CELEBRATING THE

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means of public advocacy. Hopeologist® services advocate for hope by promoting the Whole Hope Campaign, including April as the National Month of Hope. For more information, please visit practiceofhopeology.com and makeahopeconnection.com


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