"Give back to the world at least what you have received."
Albert Einstein
Project BAY 2022: Pencils of Promise
This year the BAY foundation supports children education through Pencils of promise. Stay tuned for more details on how you can contribute too.
Previous project: Weavers from Tocoios
Project hold by Viviane Fortes, a social entrepreneur who works to empower women in the brazilian countryside.
Annually, when the drought strikes the region, its population is forced to migrate. Women, very often, stay alone with the kids while their husband go away to look for a job. Some of them never come back.
Viviane Fortes works in small rural communities with those women who find themselves in a vulnerable condition.
By identifying their main skills, ske encourages those women to get together to learn from each other - but also to share and to get help from their peers.
In the Weavers from Tocoios group, 40 women meet daily in their work shed where they weave organic cotton that has been planted, harvested, spinned and dyed naturally in place.
Follow this project on Instagram - @mulheresdoJequitinhonha
