When someone asks me what I do, I don’t have a quick response. Today I might have put together a marketing campaign, updated the website with a project story, met with board members, or wrote thank you notes to donors. Tomorrow might be fundraiser planner, volunteering with a local project partner or outlining goals and objective for a project. And that is just this week!
Tifie’s mission is to support community projects that help marginalized people provide for their own basic needs. The thing that gives me goose bumps about that statement is the word marginalized. People on the outskirts, people who, for some reason, are on the wrong side of the line. And what I’ve learned in the last eight years of working with Tifie is that we all have something to give and receive from each other. We’re more similar that not, with hopes for our future, dreams for our children, pride in our home and love for our families and friends. Isn’t that the heart of community?
I’m honored to work for Tifie and thankful that I get to play a small part in making someone else’s life better. Whether it’s our most recent project of sending safe and dry shelters to midwives and expecting mamas in rural Nepal post-earthquake, or whether it’s sending women in dire need of surgery in Congo solar-powered flashlights to give them a means of light and power to start a business, or it’s… the list goes on. All of our projects have a person, a family, a child who is going to have a better life because of the work we’re doing.
My job is to tell that story and give you all a way to have meaningful and impactful experience when you partner with Tifie. If you’re excited about volunteering, sustainability, marginalized people, Ghana, education, Peru, agro-businesses, Morocco, second chances, marginalized people, fundraising, refugees, grow beds, solar power, shelter, entrepreneurship, families, single moms, technical skills, the DRC, basic needs story-telling or giving your time, resources or money, we’ve got something you’ll be interested in.
This is Halen’s story, what’s yours?
