Highlights of our recent efforts:
We proudly serve as a Community Partner to the Community Center of Northern Westchester in support of the needs of local women and children.
We offer Opportunity Grants to women who hold exceptional promise for self-improvement and community contribution.
We advocate, one-to-one, for the rights of neighbors in need of support, often as related to their children's educational needs.
In past years we have:
In response to pandemic-related school closings, provided enrichment packets to 600 local children in need.
Donated hundreds of books to a local school district's summer literacy project.
Supported and helped coordinate the Community Center of Northern Westchester's distribution of 2000 packets of school supplies to local children during the pandemic.
Led local young adults on numerous mission trips to LaCarpio, Costa Rica.
Through numerous fundraising campaigns and volunteer efforts, Provided ongoing support to ReNuevos, an extraordinary on-site educational and health mission in LaCarpio, Costa Rica.
Financed the building of a two-story addition onto the Refugio, an educational facility that houses a high school preparation program and counseling services for young women.
Through the Hanna Scholars Program, extensively funded the education of girls through high school and eventually on to college.
In partnership with TOMS shoes, provided over a four-year period for the distribution of thirty thousand pairs of shoes to needy children in LaCarpio and throughout all of Costa Rica.
"I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world."
Malala Yousafai
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First cohort of Hanna Scholars, high school graduates in LaCarpio, Costa Rica.
Measuring a student for a new pair of TOMS shoes
LaCarpio students sporting their new shoes!
Hanna Monte and friends in LaCarpio
Rosa (right), Opportunity Grant recipient and expert upholsterer, with her instructor.
In keeping with the above, our goals are to:
-- Provide Opportunity Grants to help women actualize their full potential.
--Offer direct service by mentoring women and serving as advocates for neighbors in need.
--Inspire and empower young people as social activists, working in community for the greater good.
