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Help end modern day slavery
Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day…
It’s also the 146th anniversary of the day our 13th Amendment was introduced to Congress — which set out to abolish slavery in the United States.
Yet today — slavery still exists — in so many forms.
Sex trade, immigrant farmers working in Florida, children mining for coltan, chocolate and coffee farmers [...]
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Greg Russinger at The Idea Camp #icdc #justicefriday
For #justicefriday ::
Lots of good stuff in there. Well worth the 25 minutes.
You can read my notes from watching it the first time.
What’d you think? What notes did you take? How will you take these ideas and apply them in your community?
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Candice’s Laundry Love story
From our latest get together with our Laundry Love People…
Find out more at www.redoakllp.wordpress.com or just4one.org.
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Laundry Love PEOPLE
Over the weekend, we got word from JustOne that they’re changing the name of the Laundry Love Project initiative.
From JustOne:
The reasons are simple….
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Laundry Love Project :: additional notes
A few additional notes…
After our “surprise” visit to the Glenn Heights Wash and Dry last month, we requested permission from the owner in order to post flyers and such letting people know we would be offering free laundry on the last Saturday of the month.
While we weren’t able to talk with the owner directly, we [...]
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Laundry Love Project :: You’re FREE!
With two Laundry Love Projects under our belt, we are quickly realizing that while the concept itself is sometimes hard to understand in English, it’s even harder to explain to those speaking Spanish (or other languages).
We had twice as many Spanish-only families this month as last month and we found it increasingly difficult to [...]
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Laundry Love Project :: No strings attached
Wow! What a great time with this month’s Laundry Love Project.
We had a great time washing more than 30 loads of laundry (double last month’s numbers) and helping more than 15 different families.
We’re quickly finding out that communication and language barriers may be our biggest hurdle to overcome. Yet they bring such joy once they’re [...]
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Purchase calling cards for victims of slavery
From onevoicetoendslavery.com
Through differing relationships we (together) have been presented with the opportunity to help 42 labor trafficking survivors make ongoing and necessary phone calls with their families in Indonesia, Dominican Republic, and the Philippians.
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Red Oak LLP :: insurgency of love
We had our first Laundry Love Project in the Red Oak area tonight – specifically in Glenn Heights.
We had hoped and planned to do our first LLP in our neighborhood but we had some trouble communicating with the owner of the local laundry mat. So rather than force the issue we decided to do a [...]
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A new project
Our small group is taking on a new outreach project…
See what you think.
Red Oak Laundry of Love Project
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