Peacekeeper Truth Serum Blog

UNIFEM, the organization that our LipGloss UNIFEM is named after and that we donate directly to every time you buy one, has a great new campaign to raise awareness and money to help end the pandemic of violence against against women and girls.

One simple way to help is adding your signature. Nicole Kidman is asking for our help, and you don’t want to let Nicole Kidman down do you?? The United Nations Foundation (UNF) announced  it will donate $1 dollar for each of the first 100,000 signatures to the online petition. That means just signing your name, which is free for you, will donate one dollar. many women in the world live on less than one dollar for theier whole day so this small act can mean a lot depending on where you are. Don’t let working to end violence end there though. There is a online ToolKit you can use to spread awareness. http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/vaw/toolkit.php

Go to http://www.saynotoviolence.org/ to sign the statement.
“At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of pandemic proportions. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.”

** In just the time it took me to write this blog entry $1000 was raised**

Peace,
Jen

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Yay!
Today is our annual PeaceKeeper Holiday party. We will be bowling again this year and we had a great time last year so this year promises to be just as fun. I’ll try to post some pictures tomorrow.

I am making the unofficial theme of this party “Hope”.

Its important to remind ourselves when we work so hard to improve the lives of others that life can have meaning and worthwile. So much of the issues that surround our activism, like sex trafficking, can give the feeling of hopelessness. We have to make sure not only do we remind ourselves to keep working to make the world better for everyone, but we have to make sure that we see the hope in life.

A fire has to have different parts to keep it going, different fuels. Certainly knowing the wrongs that happen in life is one of the fuels, say the wood that is burning. Fires also need air to keep going, and enjoying our lives and rememebring what it is taken away from others is the air that keeps our fires to end exploitation, sex trafficking, slavery and the like burning.

Fires change what is burned and usually for the worse. Our fire however is one that is working to change things for the better. We want to change the world to one where all can live their lives without violence, abuse, unessesary pain and suffering.

So here’s to hope!