The Daphne Selfe Foundation is something I’ve wanted to do for sometime now. My own time for giving with a vision to change peoples lives for the better, which I hope I’m doing already with my work, but I wanted to do something for those in a less fortunate position than many of us find ourselves. A Foundation seems the perfect way to do this. This way I will have a selection of charitable projects than I feel reflect my own principles and outlook which I can partner with.
Announcing my first partnership – I’m delighted to let you know that I am an Ambassador for Orphans Know More (OKM). It is the initative of Naomi Peachey who along with her family and a great team have a strong passion to make positive change in the lives of others.
OKM is a relationally based partnership working together to give orphans a Face, a Family and a Future. OKM focuses on families, not institutions. Orphans and vulnerable children are freed from the stigma and prejudice of labels such as “AIDS Orphan” as they become valued members of a new family. Family and extended family are vital in bringing change and hope to these children throughout their lives.
OKM supports African families they know personally who have adopted orphans. Currently partnering with Ugandan families who began responding to the needs of those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.
For further information about OKM please look at their website by clicking or tapping here
If you would like to make a donation to the Daphne Selfe Foundation which includes sponsorship of students on Daphne’s online courses as well as to OKM or directly to OKM please click or tap below:
Well Daphne, I leave it to you to come up with something so wondrous! When people speak of the atrocities going on around the world from our own neighborhoods to Aleppo they never or seldom mention the horrible atrocities going on against women (particularly) in Africa and I often wonder why. Thank you for taking up the gauntlet. I wish I still had money to spare but, alas, when my husband passed away, much of our fortune had met with disaster. However, I still have my determination to take life by the tail and give my best efforts to make this world a better place…especially for children.
In the meantime, enjoy the holidays with friends and loved ones. Many blessings in the coming year. You and I may not have all that many New Years to greet but what we have left I feel assured will be ushered in with elan and will go out with our footprints well-planted.