I hope you are having a great start to the week! I’m currently in New Haven, CT this time for less than 24 hours (!). Craziness! I got to use a really nice kitchen tonight in the hotel, and the day in food went really smoothly. But honestly, I really need to get a good night’s sleep! I was starting to nod off periodically on the road down from Boston.
I also wanted to share something with you today that is very, very close to my heart. In my travels, I have seen so many different people from different backgrounds- many with the kindest hearts and biggest and warmest smiles, but all the while living without clean water or steady access to life-giving food (especially fresh produce).
Do you ever think about all the people out there you want to help, but weren’t sure how to help, or if you really could make a difference?
That’s why I was incredibly excited when I heard of this revolutionary new organization: SeeYourImpact.org. It gives us all the ability to donate any amount, say a $10 mosquito net, or a $18 school uniform. Literally, about 2 weeks after you donate on their website, you’ll find out exactly who you helped!
SeeYourImpact.org will email you a picture and a story of the real person whose life you changed with your gift. In two weeks! I’ve never seen anything like it. You’ll know their name and you’ll see how your donation is helping them. It’s so amazing!
Here’s an example. When I was visiting their website in October, I saw that a donor named Kellie had donated to my favorite gift: $25 home garden. By the end of the month, she had received this email of her gift in action:
Dear Kellie,
Your donation has helped to provide nourishment for a family in rural Rwanda. The mother’s name is Afisa, pictured in the purple shirt, and the father’s name is Asman.
Afisa and Asman have two kids of their own, and a third orphan child in their custody. The community health workers notified Humanity for Children about their family because they are very poor, and thus have had problems keeping their kids from getting malnourished.
Thanks to your donation, Afisa and Asman received the seeds necessary to plant a garden!
Whenever I read this letter, it does make me tear up. :( During my travels, I’ve encountered families struggling to find a steady supply of food, let alone healthily organic vegetables. And here are inexpensive home gardens that enable families to live healthier, more sustainable lives and you get to see exactly who you’re helping!
Help me change the world!
I want to do something really special with you this week. I’ve launched a campaign with SeeyourImpac.org to provide gardens to 15 families in Rwanda and Colombia.
All it takes is $25 to provide a family with a beautiful healthy vegetable garden, where they grow foods that increase metabolism. Even better, I contacted the organization, and they’ve provided me with gift certificates to give to the first 10 donors. Hurry, give and you’ll receive a $25 gift certificate to SeeYourImpact.org that you can email to a friend!
Oh here’s more info on the gardens: In Rwanda your donation will provide a family with a permaculture garden. These gardens retain water better during the dry season, and require less overall work to maintain. In Colombia your donation will turn an abandoned backyard into a productive organic vegetable garden.
I am so excited about SeeYourImpact.org and I know that you will be too. Please help me change the world for just a few people by donating a $25 home garden kit today!!! I’m eager to see the photos and stories we receive back! Share yours in the comments.
SeeYourImpact.org offers more than just gardens. Their gifts focus on healthcare, education and clean water in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A one-year beauty care course for handicapped women in India is another really cool program. After completion of the course, graduates receive a formal certificate, and all the materials they need to start their own beauty business! Check out the site for yourself. What are your favorite gifts?
In a few weeks, I’ll share the pictures of the lives we’ve changed. Let’s see what we can do! Again, please join me and click HERE and check it out!! Let’s impact some lives!!!
Please pass this along to your friends and family. You can even use the social network links listed below (see how I’m trying to get more techie these days?! And I will launch my Facebook page soon- hey I’m only 5 years behind. :) ).
Love always,
Kimberly
Hi Kim! You’re in CT! That’s where I live! :) What brings you here?? I REALLY wish I could have the opportunity to meet you, I so much admire your work and what you stand for on a day to day basis as you enlighten people along your path. I’m 26 years old and have been a Math Teacher at a High School for 3 years. I know teaching is an important job but my passion is raw and vegan food and baking. Animals and animal welfare have always been a concern and driving force in the way I choose to eat. I would love to pursue my passion and open up a vegan cafe with raw smoothies and juices. I have started a blog, bestvegannewengland.com where I will post various places to eat in New England that support this type of lifestyle. Do you have any other suggestions of how to get started? I am thinking of relocating to NYC to work in various vegan/raw restaurants and learn as much as I can about the industry. If you still have time in CT, you must visit the only all raw restaurant in CT, Catch a Healthy Habit Cafe in Fairfield. Tell the owner Glen that Kristen Valenti sent you. :) Anyways, I love what you do and thank you for inspiring me!! I also did the teacher training with Sri Dharma Mittra who inspired me so much to pursue this lifestyle and I would have loved the opportunity to take one of your classes while you were teaching in NY!! Maybe one day I can, if I come to LA. :)
Hi, Kimberly!
The SeeYourImpact is a great initiative! I am willing to help also :) Thanks for the opportunity and bst wishes!
Hi Kimberly,
I just donated for a home garden. This is a wonderful idea and I will tell some of my friends at work to help. Thanks for everything you do.
Great idea!
And I love the pictures. My boyfriend–before I met him–served in the Peace Corps in Zimbabwe, and I am always on the look-out for pictures from there, so that I feel a little bit like I can see what he saw…
Hi Kim,
Thanks for letting us know about this great cause…
I have just donated for a permaculture garden from Australia.
I cannot wait to show my children how their money could help others…
:)
Kimberly, from this old soldier, thank you for what you do. You are a mentor to my wife. Would love to shake your hand if you are ever in the Fort Lewis area. I have a question about your home garden. Specifically cruciferous veggies. What grow best in home gardens. I came across this blog post about raw veggies and it has me a little
discouraged about my green smoothies. My friend has Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
(auto-immune) and it is pretty severe, along with other debilitating health
conditions, so she obviously don’t want to cause herself any more problems.
https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2010/10/think-raw-veggies-are-best-think-again.html
She cites this as one of her sources:
https://www.westonaprice.org/abcs-of-nutrition/177
It says that cruciferous vegetables should be cooked or they will block
production of the thyroid hormone. It also cautions eating raw spinach,
parsley, etc. (which she love in her smoothies) because they contain oxalic
acid, which blocks iron and calcium absorption and may contribute to the
formation of kidney stones. She thinks that drinking lots of water, plus
varying greens helps with the oxalates right? But then the cruciferous
vegetables thing threw her for a loop. Any suggestions?
AAAAHHH! There are so many different categories to select from in the SeeYourImpact organization. Trouble picking just one.
Speaking of making your own organic product to live healthier, I am trying to gather ingredients to make my own lotion. I would like to purchase Polawax GP200, a coconut based emulsifying wax. Have you got any idea where I can purchase this?
I was recommended this web site through my cousin. I’m now not sure whether this post is written via him as nobody else recognise such specified approximately my problem. You’re amazing! Thank you!