So They Can Thrive

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Asking for support for communities I hold very dear to my heart.

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So They Can Thrive, organized by Azaria Grace In 2011 I founded a non profit called So They Can Thrive. We were a volunteer run organization, meani… Azaria Grace needs your support for So They Can Thrive

Finding the courage to open/offer our hearts is exactly what this world needs.

Your hands have lightened our work. In 2011 we began with providing education and over the years expanded to include healthcare, clean water, agriculture, environmentalism, sustainability, and housing. Our projects have encompassed two schools, multiple farming projects, two medical clinics, clean water stations, reforestation, keeping girls in school, and supporting single mothers.

It is with a heavy heart we now announce the dissolution of our beloved organization. While one door closes, we trust many others will open as we continue our work in new ways. Thank you for sharing this vision and undertaking this work with us. Thank you for believing in, investing in, and creating vital change in our world. To follow the impacts of our work, please connect with Ivan Woods Kasujja of HOPE Aid Foundation .

May you feel supported on your own journey forward. We continue to rise together. Thank you, we love you, and be well.

“Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” -George Washington Carver, US American agricultural scientist, inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton & methods to prevent soil depletion, & the most prominent Black scientist of the early 20th century

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
-Frederick Douglass, US American social reformer, formerly enslaved person, abolitionist, orator, writer, & statesman

"Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes." -Adora Svitak, US American writer, public speaker, former child prodigy, & activist

"We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them." -Erica Jong, US American novelist, satirist, second-wave feminist, & poet

"Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth." -Angelique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter, actress, & activist

"The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries." -Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, civil society leader, & Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Our sewing cooperative has begun working on the sanitary pads we are able to purchase. These pads will be ready in one week and will allow girls in Ddegeya Village to continue pursuing their education. Thank you for making this project possible SO THEY CAN THRIVE!

"It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education." -Nelson Mandela