Cause

A Teenager who wants to change the world!

Taylor's passion is  to change the world. She wants to help the hurting not only with physical needs but spiritual needs.  " I want to right the wrongs in the world", she told me. 

So far she has been to Mexico on a youth missions trip through her church. There she helped families who live in the Matamoros dumps. Now she is going to Cambodia in July. Her team will be partnering with new life ministries, a local church there. She will be working at Hope Centers which houses and cares for orphans. Cambodia is plagued with the illegal trade of sex trafficking of children. These Hope Centers takes children off the streets and secures they will not be sold into this hideous trade. 

She leaves oklahoma on July 27th for 10 days. She is needing at minimum 1700.00 more dollars to pay for her trip. If you are interested in contributing to her trip go to the Church of the Harvest website below and make note that you are contributing to Taylor's Cambodia Trip. I believe this young woman will change her world!!

Harvest Online Giving

Post by Malika Cox

International Action

International Action is an organization working to provide clean safe drinking water to Haiti and around the world. The vision is of a world where every child will attend school, enhance their talents and live to participate positively in their community.  Every 15 seconds a child dies from a preventable water-related disease. This should not be so! 

This is a wonderful cause that I believe in totally.Find our how you can support this organization through your finances and service by going http://www.haitiwater.org/

Post by Malika Cox

 

Donate My Dress

I stumbled upon this charity organization that I wanted to share with all the dolls out there. It's called Donate My Dress! Above Ashley Greene auctioned off her dress for this darling organization.  Here is a little excerpt about it:

"DonateMyDress.org is the first national campaign designed to encourage girls around the country to donate their prom and special occasion dresses to those who cannot afford to finance the costly experience of going to their prom, sweet 16, quinceañera or formal on their own. The site features a directory of local dress drive organizations across the U.S. that will enable girls to easily find out where in their local markets they can donate a dress or receive one. In addition, DonateMyDress.org contains information on upcoming local events, a photo gallery of real girls donating and receiving dresses, as well as links to content on prom and quinceañera planning, hair and makeup tips, and other worthy causes."

We don't have a chapter in Oklahoma City but I am working on starting one and filled out my information today.  There are three locations in Tulsa but it looks like a great way to help girls that might not have the means to buy a great Prom Dress.  If you have a dress you would like to donate, please go to their site: www.donatemydress.org

Posted by: Annie Braun

The Hope Center

 

Interview between our doll, Malika Cox and the Hope Center in the province of Kampong Cham, Cambodia.

 

 

1. Tell us about how you discovered the horrible atrocities of human trafficking going on in S.E. Asia?
We first learned about this horrible crime against innocent children from Allison’s best friend who is Vietnamese. Her parents immigrated to the United States more than 30 years ago so she was born American but still has family in Vietnam.  She learned about human trafficking and educated us on what was happening in Southeast Asia and around the world.

2. How many trips have you been on?
We have traveled to Cambodia in 2007, 2008 and will return this July 2009. In 2007, our church – Church of the Harvest – partnered with Joyce Meyer Ministries to build three orphanages, called “Hope Centers,” in Cambodia (the three Hope Centers are fully funded by Church of the Harvest and Joyce Meyer is funding operating costs for the next 20 years. There were many more Hope Centers funded by other organizations and churches around the world as well). We were able to meet the children and leaders running the Hope Centers and have since built lifelong bonds with them. They, along with other incredible organizations like New Life Fellowship in the capital city of Phnom Penh, International Crisis Aid and Hagar International, work to bring recovery and restoration to exploited, destitute and rejected women and children. It is estimated every year 1.2 million children are trafficked for sex around the world and Cambodia is one of the leading countries.

3. What was the most impacting experience you had on these trips?
It seems impossible to say one thing. It is showering love and attention on little girls who have lived in horror and demonstrating what pure love looks like; it is kicking a soccer ball with little boys who were abandoned on the streets but now have a home in a Hope Center we helped to build and believing they will grow up and change the generations that come after them; the looks on the faces of those we are able to bless; sharing the love of Jesus with the hopeless; ultimately, it’s knowing we are doing what we can to make a difference.

4. What organizations have you partnered with?
Church of the Harvest (www.harvestokc.com), New Life Ministries (http://www.cambodiaoutreach.org/) , Hagar International (http://www.hagarproject.org/), International Crisis Aid (http://www.crisisaid.org/) and other local churches.

5. What are your plans to go back?

We will return this July 27 – Aug 13, 2009, and are so excited to go back! To read more about our experience, please visit our blog at www.andyandalimorris.blogspot.com or to view photos please go to http://flickr.com/photos/12115303@N06/. Because of the sensitive nature of the girls who have been rescued from the sex trafficking rings, we cannot post photos of the girls.

 

Written by: Malika Cox