What Do We Give?
We fundraise using our exclusive fashion products. For each Project Migration product sold, one or more struggling single mothers in East Africa will receive up to 20 years (depending on product sold) of clean water along with life-saving medical supplies for her and her children.
We fundraise using our exclusive fashion products. For each Project Migration product sold, one or more struggling single mothers in East Africa will receive up to 20 years (depending on product sold) of clean water along with life-saving medical supplies for her and her children.
Why Single Mothers?
Life in Africa is especially hard for single mothers and their children. Many single mothers are unable to get an education and have no reliable source of income with which to purchase food to feed their children, or to provide them with necessary shelter and care. Single mothers are often forced to leave their children unattended for more than three hours each day.
Why?
To walk for many miles in the hot sun carrying extremely heavy containers filled with the dirty, infected water that is likely to make her and her children ill. Infection from dirty water is not the only risk. Rape along these tough many-mile journeys is common, resulting in more children, depression, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and orphans. Both the mother and her children are at high risk of death from sickness due to lack of clean water and lack of medical supplies.
The culture in most countries in East Africa is such that once a woman is married or has given birth, she is not allowed to return to her parents' home, regardless of divorce, death or abandonment by her husband or boyfriend. At young ages, single mothers are left alone, to fend for their new family.
Life in Africa is especially hard for single mothers and their children. Many single mothers are unable to get an education and have no reliable source of income with which to purchase food to feed their children, or to provide them with necessary shelter and care. Single mothers are often forced to leave their children unattended for more than three hours each day.
Why?
To walk for many miles in the hot sun carrying extremely heavy containers filled with the dirty, infected water that is likely to make her and her children ill. Infection from dirty water is not the only risk. Rape along these tough many-mile journeys is common, resulting in more children, depression, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and orphans. Both the mother and her children are at high risk of death from sickness due to lack of clean water and lack of medical supplies.
The culture in most countries in East Africa is such that once a woman is married or has given birth, she is not allowed to return to her parents' home, regardless of divorce, death or abandonment by her husband or boyfriend. At young ages, single mothers are left alone, to fend for their new family.
Why Medical Supplies?
Often, in Africa, very simple medical issues can become life threatening without the availability of basic supplies. Project Migration is addressing the two leading causes of death of young children living in poverty: pneumonia and diarrhea.
Pneumonia accounts for up to 3 million, or as many as one-third of under-five deaths worldwide. Nearly 1 in 5 child deaths globally are as a result of pneumonia.
Diarrhea has claimed the lives of more children in the past 10 years alone, than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II. 1.4 million children die as a result of diarrhea each year.
More than half of all Africans suffer from water-related diseases. Pneumonia and infant diarrhea are two of the most common diseases that result in death of children in Africa. As both of these illnesses are easily preventable and treatable, having the right medical supplies on hand could save many children's lives.
Often, in Africa, very simple medical issues can become life threatening without the availability of basic supplies. Project Migration is addressing the two leading causes of death of young children living in poverty: pneumonia and diarrhea.
Pneumonia accounts for up to 3 million, or as many as one-third of under-five deaths worldwide. Nearly 1 in 5 child deaths globally are as a result of pneumonia.
Diarrhea has claimed the lives of more children in the past 10 years alone, than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II. 1.4 million children die as a result of diarrhea each year.
More than half of all Africans suffer from water-related diseases. Pneumonia and infant diarrhea are two of the most common diseases that result in death of children in Africa. As both of these illnesses are easily preventable and treatable, having the right medical supplies on hand could save many children's lives.
Why Water?
Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.
The time that a single mother spends procuring dirty water that is likely to make herself and her children ill, could be used to generate an income to support her children. Often, mothers are forced to pull their children from school in order to have them walk for hours to get water each day.
Project Migration will be funding the building of new wells to provide clean water in villages, which will benefit single mothers in need.
Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.
The time that a single mother spends procuring dirty water that is likely to make herself and her children ill, could be used to generate an income to support her children. Often, mothers are forced to pull their children from school in order to have them walk for hours to get water each day.
Project Migration will be funding the building of new wells to provide clean water in villages, which will benefit single mothers in need.
What Do We do?
Project Migration designs and sells exclusive products to raise money for clean water and medical supplies. Proceeds from the products also benefit fundraising projects, in addition to traditional cash donations. Selling products to support fundraising efforts allows more people to become a part of the Project Migration Movement, and also provides customers with a product to continually remind them of the cause they are supporting.
Supporters have an opportunity to personally hand-deliver supplies during trips we call 'Migration Vacations', so named to inspire people to use their 'vacation time' from work to do something positive and meaningful in the world.
Project Migration designs and sells exclusive products to raise money for clean water and medical supplies. Proceeds from the products also benefit fundraising projects, in addition to traditional cash donations. Selling products to support fundraising efforts allows more people to become a part of the Project Migration Movement, and also provides customers with a product to continually remind them of the cause they are supporting.
Supporters have an opportunity to personally hand-deliver supplies during trips we call 'Migration Vacations', so named to inspire people to use their 'vacation time' from work to do something positive and meaningful in the world.
What Don't We do?
Project Migration does not hurt local businesses by donating products that can be made locally. Often organizations can unintentionally damage the local economy when they seek to provide aid. Project Migration does thorough due diligence on all donated products to ensure they are not in direct competition with local commerce.
Project Migration does not fuel corruption. Organizations that donate large amounts of money or supplies to a region are often unintentionally funding corrupt governments, rather than feeding the poor. By personally donating products (rather than cash donations or support of other charitable efforts) directly to the people in need (on 'Migration Vacations'), Project Migration ensures that all aid reaches the single mothers it is intended for.
Project Migration does not hurt local businesses by donating products that can be made locally. Often organizations can unintentionally damage the local economy when they seek to provide aid. Project Migration does thorough due diligence on all donated products to ensure they are not in direct competition with local commerce.
Project Migration does not fuel corruption. Organizations that donate large amounts of money or supplies to a region are often unintentionally funding corrupt governments, rather than feeding the poor. By personally donating products (rather than cash donations or support of other charitable efforts) directly to the people in need (on 'Migration Vacations'), Project Migration ensures that all aid reaches the single mothers it is intended for.
Community Involvement
Migration Vacations will be a special opportunity for supporters of the cause and the brand to travel with us to East Africa to meet the mothers, build wells and donate supplies. The trips will make certain that the supplies are going directly into the hands of the single mothers who need them and will aid in creating a global community outreach, attracting more and more people to support the struggling single mothers of East Africa.
The Project Migration website will encourage our philanthropic customers to get engaged in the cause. The community section will help customers connect with one another and reflect on the aid that they have provided. Fun, collectible badges (similar to girl scout badges) on their profile will indicate how much water, medical supplies, etc. they have donated through the products they have purchased, fundraisers they have attended or donations they have made. Each year, the person with the most badges will win a free Migration Vacation.
Migration Vacations will be a special opportunity for supporters of the cause and the brand to travel with us to East Africa to meet the mothers, build wells and donate supplies. The trips will make certain that the supplies are going directly into the hands of the single mothers who need them and will aid in creating a global community outreach, attracting more and more people to support the struggling single mothers of East Africa.
The Project Migration website will encourage our philanthropic customers to get engaged in the cause. The community section will help customers connect with one another and reflect on the aid that they have provided. Fun, collectible badges (similar to girl scout badges) on their profile will indicate how much water, medical supplies, etc. they have donated through the products they have purchased, fundraisers they have attended or donations they have made. Each year, the person with the most badges will win a free Migration Vacation.
'We make a living by what we get,
we make a life by what we give.'
- Sir Winston Churchill
