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Friends- I really need your help!  We are closing in on the end of our campaign and we still have $4000 to raise in order to put a well into our little village in Uganda.  This well means so much to this community- it means clean healthy water, it means filling their Jerry cans with water in a safe spot- rather than traveling through jungle with unspeakable dangers to women and children.  And it means hope- for a brighter future for this community.  All I ask is that you visit our campaign and donate the price of a coffee- more if you wish.  But if everyone donated $5 we would be able to fulfill our goal and BUILD A WELL!  Please visit and donate!

I need your help!

Friends, I am SO EXCITED about this!  After months of planning and working to create what we KNOW will be an amazing place of learning, we have kicked off our Indiegogo campaign – Build Tusubira Village!!  Our goal is set to raise money for the well- the most important and most expensive part of the project.  A well will be life-changing on a day to day basis for this village.  Currently women and children walk up to 2 miles each way twice a day to collect water through dense jungle that is NOT SAFE.  There are no animals there- but there are other things that, as a mama, nearly kill me to think of.  So- a well is a MUST so that these kiddos can safely collect clean safe water.

However…  If we can raise more than we have set as our goal- WE WILL GET THIS VILLAGE UP AND RUNNING!  We have a complete plan that will offer the people of our community so much hope – a place that they can come and learn to grow nutritional food, learn skills and basic life changing ways of living day to day that will improve health and wellness.  It is the beginning of creating a better life for themselves and we simply want to show them how to do it.

So- what I would LOVE to ask you to do is to visit the campaign and then SPREAD THE WORD!  I am so grateful for any help getting this project all over social media in hopes of getting people to donate to changing the lives of this amazing community.  With this project, we are offering them a helping hand by which to improve their OWN lives, and to continue doing so for generations to come.  We can do this my friends- I truly believe that~

You can read more about this story here and here~

Thanks so much for any and all help you can provide and I can’t wait to share the progress with you!

x

Indiegogo Build Tusubira Village

latrine before and after

An amazing yet simple way to support women in Uganda

Hello friends!

I wanted to share some exciting news.  I am working on building a non-profit organization based here in the states that will support education and empowerment to those who need it most.  You can learn a bit more about the program here:  the grow hope foundation  Our first partnership is with an organization in Uganda called SCHEP- Sustainable Community Health Education Program.  With them we hope to educate people in rural Uganda on the importance of hygiene, sanitation and nutrition.  We have already developed a pilot project that I am looking forward to going back and photographing this summer.  But I need your help.  The women in Uganda have been working hard hand making beads to then string into beautiful jewelry.  It is beautiful and I personally wear it all the time.  I have just stocked my shop- tiggy & grace - with so many gorgeous pieces.  ALL PROCEEDS will go directly to the women who made the jewelry, so that they can properly feed their children and send them to school.  It is such a small thing, buying a piece of jewelry, but it makes such an impact on the lives of these women and through them, their children.  Imagine if you could change the trajectory of a child's life by simply buying jewelry.  Oh the possibilities!

Thank you friends!

K.

tiggygrace.bigcartel.com

In two days I will be heading to Uganda, Africa to move the first 13 kids into the children's home my mama has built there.  If you want to follow along through instagram, where I will be posting photos of my three weeks loving on those gorgeous kids and exploring the Ugandan countryside, follow me at kimberlytaylorimages

It's going to be quite the adventure!  I hope to see you there~

x

See the progress of the home and where it all began HERE

speaking of moving...

A dear friend reminded me that I really should ask you to hit the rss feed button just to the right - yep, right over there---->
That way, I can just whisk you away with me when the move does happen~
I hope you all had as lovely a Sunday as I did - a great run this morning and then a movie with the bigs. My "to do" list didn't get any shorter, but instead I had time with two of my very favorite young men.
Have a fabulous week mes amies,
xx

Would you buy me a coffee?

{This post is from my new website but I felt it was important enough to come back here, seeing as I know some of you haven't been able to follow me over to my new site here}

A coffee- well, actually, a grande soy chai tea latte.  That is my drink of choice these days.  Iced on the rare occasion that the sun shines on us, hot otherwise.  They run just under $5- a clean five when I throw the change into the tip jar.

Five Dollars.

So, if we were out one afternoon and we stopped by a Starbucks, would you offer to buy my coffee?  Because it would cost you $5.

Do you know that if everyone I know and everyone Mr. Taylor knows donated $5 to the online fundraiser for the orphanage my mom is building we could have that security wall built.  Okay, maybe we don't know quite that many people, but if the people we know spread the word and all of their friends also donated $5- well, surely we would finish the wall.  And do you know what happens when the security wall is finished and the home is secured?  THE CHILDREN CAN MOVE IN!!!  Because they have to wait people- they can't move in until it's finished.  They can't sleep in a bed or have a room of their own or live in a place that they can call home.  Because in Uganda, it isn't safe to move the children in and bring in the supplies without a security wall.  And so we wait.  We wait until we can raise the money to finish the wall- and the sooner we raise it the sooner those kids are off the streets.

It's a coffee people.  It is less than a martini.  It is five dollars.

Please visit the fundraising web site and consider donating something- anything.  And then, share the link and the story with your friends.  You have no idea how much it will be appreciated.  It is a couple clicks on your computer, a quick post on facebook or twitter, an email to friends.  It really is so little considering how it will change the life of some children far away.

And, if you need incentive, how about this~

Mr. Taylor has offered to donate one of his bowls every time we raise $1000 I will draw a name from the list of the donors in that $1000 and send the winner a bowl made in our studio by Mr. Taylor.

You can find the blog for the entire project here~