The 2015 Report 2015 was a busy year for Passport 2 Freedom. We started the year designing a bunch of new apparel. In February we shot our newest line with amazing awards winning photographers, Shari and Mike. In April we traveled to Vancouver to showcase our apparel and promote our Cause at ECO Fashion Week. In May, founder, Hanne Fellers travelled to her home country, Norway to speak at several events and fundraise. She hosted a booth and spoke at the festival Jærdagen in Bryne. She then traveled to the south of Norway in July to help lead and speak at True Story Night at the big music festival, Skjærgårds. In late July/beginning of August we hosted a booth at the 10th annual Word in Motion Dance Festival in Los Angeles. In November we had a booth at the ZOE Rescue Walk in Los Angeles. We attended several Fashion events in October during Los Angeles Fashion Week. Mid November we traveled with an outreach team of ten from the US to the Favela slums. While we were there we were able to participate in art education, dance, sports and games, with children living in extreme poverty and at a high-risk of trafficking. In the Favela slums young girls get taken advantage of, they are often seen as a commodity for drug lords and local gangs. During this trip some of our ladies were able to sit in on a talk with some of the young girls in Gramacho. Our leader, Nadia talked about dreams and thinking ahead, she talked about child/teenage pregnancy. It was inspiring getting to hear some of these young girls dreams. Some dreamed of becoming a doctor, a teacher, a computer specialist, an actress etc. A very high percentage of girls living in Gramacho have children before their 18th birthday, many don’t get education because of this. We are so thankful for all our staff, volunteers, donors and people who buy our apparel. We can NOT do what we do without YOU.
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