FEED Projects, along with their parent charity the FEED Foundation, has established the FEED Haiti Fund to maintain WFP school feeding.  In times of emergency, many funds to provide immediate support to victims are drawn from long standing development programs such as WFP (World Food Programme).  With every contribution made through the FEED Haiti Fund, we will be ensuring that the children of Haiti along with their families are receiving aid.  In addition to any monetary contributions, FEED Projects will also donate any profit made from the sale of FEED 1 and FEED 2 bags from January until June directly to the FEED Haiti Fund to ensure that the children of Haiti will continue to receive help.  Please click the Help Haiti Now button below to make a direct donation or visit FEEDProjects.com to purchase one of their contributing bags.  Thank you all for your consideration in this effort and please help me spread the word on the many other ways you can help Haiti.

My heart and prayers are with you, Haiti…  xoxo

Shop to help NYC children on Sunday, December 6th 2009!  Over 75 participating retailers along New York City’s famed Madison Avenue between 57th and 86th Streets will donate 20% of the days sales to The Children’s Aids Society’s health services.  So get in as much holiday shopping as you can this Sunday and help out with an extraordinary cause.

For more information, visit http://miracle.childrensaidsociety.org/.

Happy Shopping!

xoxo

Around this time of year, most of you probably switch up your skin care routine and incorporate more hydrating treatments and facial creams.  Well, that’s great!     Just don’t forget about the skin on your body as well.  Be sure to exfoliate more and look for ingredients like shea butter to soothe rough, dry or chapped skin.

In the early 1980’s, Olivier Baussan, Founder of L’Occitane, made his first trip to Burkina Faso and discovered shea butter.  Since then, L’Occitane has worked with a handful of local women and entrusted them with the secrets of shea butter preparation – which is why shea butter is known as “Women’s Gold.”  As a company, L’Occitane has assisted these women in building a stable future for themselves and their families.

Click here to watch a fascinating video on the production of shea butter in Africa.

L’Occitane’s Moments in Africa Soap Set is a new, limited edition holiday set that benefits not only the women and families of Burkina Faso, but also ORBIS, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting preventable blindness around the world.  100% of the proceeds are donated to ORBIS through the L’Occitane Foundation.

So take pleasure in these three hand soaps perfumed with essential oils of lemongrass, eucalyptus, and orange and enjoy the carved depictions of these special moments in African life:  The Morning Harvest, The Wedding Day, and Children at Play.  You’ll be doing a good thing not only for your skin, but for others around the world as well.

Click here to see more of L’Occitane’s Shea Butter Collection.

Until next time my beautiful people…  xoxo