Dear Friend
Please enjoy this edition of our Spring Newsletter!
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I am so happy to be writing to you and sharing our second newsletter - just in time for my favorite season...Sweet Spring! Everything about spring is wonderful and new. It is that special time of year where all around us brand new lives are springing up in nature... and on all living things... a new light shines!
We can't help but get excited as the days get brighter and longer and we find new energy to explore our creative spirit. I love to list my spring plans...to transplant in my garden, spring clean my studio and home, to open the windows of my soul and feel the hope of an unexplored project that has yet to be. I hope you'll have as much fun!
I also hope you will get the "gyst" of this seasons charity... I had planned to focus our charity efforts locally but with so much devastation happening globally - I was happy to learn of this wonderful charities mission -please see below. Please take a moment to learn about our friends in the "Global Youth Service Team", find out what they do to spread hope across the globe! If your inspired -pay it forward and share the information or a "bird of hope" with a friend!
Happy Spring! With much love, Tamara
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Birds of Hope...
Spreading the Wings of Awareness
Each quarter Talulah's Fancy selects one non-profit organization and aims to support their fund raising efforts by increasing awareness to their cause. In this spring newsletter edition we will be featuring an interview with Doug Hollinger, the founder of Global Youth Service Team (GYST), an organization that provides high school and college students with the opportunity to participate in international service work in the developing world.
Birds of Hope Pin designed by artist
Tamara Stopinski
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Get the complete interview with Doug Hollinger by visiting our website at... Read an excerpt from our interview and view images of GYST below.
TF:What is the Global Youth Service Team? When was it founded and how did the idea for your mission begin?
DH:The GYST provides high school and college students with the opportunity to perform international service work by bringing sustainable energy systems, access to safe water, training and education to people in developing countries who are most in need due to resource and energy poverty. It was founded in 2006. It began as a result of my work in refugee camps which had a deep and profound affect on me. I made a decision to start an organization that would give students a chance to have the same experience helping those who are desperate and doing so in a manner that also addresses the concerns of caring for the planet that we all inhabit.
TF: What has been one of your most difficult challenges?
DH: Making sure when we travel to a location to build and teach that we are prepared for any occurrence. When we build a solar-powered electrical or water purification system, there are no hardware stores to go to and get a replacement part and there is no electricity to run the power tools we normally are accustomed to using.
TF: How would you like to see the Global Youth Service Team grow and evolve over the next several years? What are some of your goals?
DH: We are hoping to be able to build larger solar-powered electrical systems that can provide more energy to health care clinics. If they have access to computers and the web, then medics can explore databases of treatment for injuries and diseases. If we could install enough power to run vaccine refrigerators, then the cold chain to keep medicines viable can be extended out to the areas where people lack adequate care.
We also hope to grow and extend into other countries where there is need. This will require more adult leadership with engineering and technical experience who are willing to travel and work with young people.
For the rest of the interview with Doug Hollinger,CLICK HERE!
Visit the Global Youth Service Team Website to find out how you can help their mission!
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