Giving Love is an initiative from 7 pages dedicated to Chloe Bennet and her work that try to make something diferente this year: in place of making videos or tags, we planned a campaign with founds donations to Community Empowerment, an ONG founded by Dr. Stephanie Crane, Chloe’s mom.
The campaign will take place from March 18 until April 18, Chloe Bennet’s birthday! The donations will be throght Community Empowerment’s site and any value matters.
We want you to be part of it: will be a great gift, where everybody will build a little of a beautiful tribute. Be part of this Family!
Chloe Bennet visiting Haiti with Community Empowerment (source: IG)
Why Community Empowerment:
Besides the fact about Dr. Stephanie Crane (Chloe Bennet’s mom) be one of the founders of Community Empowerment, the actress already made two campaigns to raise founds to the foundation: Fight Like A Girl!
source: Represent
How to donate:
To donate, all you have to do is enter Community Empowerment’s website (http://community-empowerment.org/donate/) You can click on the Donate’ button or buy their art print. You can also shop through Amazon Smile, using their charitable link. All the money is reverted to help people in need.
If you click on“Donate”, all you have to do is follow the steps and choose the amount you want to give. Any value is significant and can help change many people’s lives.
After your donation, you will recieve an e-mailfrom Community Empowerment confirming your donation. Take a screenshot of this e-mail and post on twitter or instagram using the tag #CBennetBdayProject, we will be publishing and giving a shout out to who donates!
About Community Empowerment:
THEIR WORK :
Community Empowerment works in tandem with local leadership to provide essential health care, while creating a self-sustaining system in which our assistance is no longer needed.The first step is to work with our partner communities to identify their needs and provide regular medical and surgical care. Then, we help the communities form partnerships with existing medical and social services to ensure this care will be ongoing. We help establish a governing board over the clinics and provide training for medical students, residents, and medical providers. Ongoing care is ultimately provided by community health care workers, nurses and doctors.
PRIMARY CARE TEAMS: Primary care teams regularly work with local medical providers to provide training and care of chronic diseases.
SURGICAL CARE TEAMS: Surgical teams operate alongside local providers and provide medical and surgical education for medical students, residents and faculty members. Surgical care includes orthopedic, urology, gynecology and more.
INFASTRUCTURESUPPORT: A business model for water purification and distribution services was created to provide ongoing infrastructure support. The sales from the potable water helps finance clinic operations, including the hiring of local medical providers and provides income to several needy families.
SUSTAINABILITY: We create permanent clinics staffed with local providers, whom we train, in order to provide long-term care to the community. We work to strengthen the local leadership so that they are able to take ownership of the primary care services and water purification and distribution activities.
LEFT: Maria Keegan (nurse and trip leader). CENTER: Stephanie Crane with global health team. RIGHT: clinic developments in Peralta. (source: Community Empowerment)
ACHIEVEMENTS
CommunityEmpowerment has been involved in Peralta, Dominican Republic since 2002, and Jerusalem Haiti since 2010. There have been hundreds of volunteers, ranging from medical, nursing, and physician assistant students, residents, nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, nurse practitioners and physicians, who have participated in our work.
THEIR HISTORY
Dr. Crane envisioned partnering with underserved communities that wanted to improve access to primary care for its residents. In 2002, she selected the rural community of Peralta in southwestern Dominican Republic because there was strong local leadership and great need. In 2010, Dr. Crane and several Rush doctors and nurses provided emergency care in the immediate aftermath of the massive earthquake that struck Haiti. Afterwards, the decision was made to make a long-term commitment to working in Haiti using the same model that was successful in the Dominican Republic.
Guys! Chloe’s birthday is coming and we are gonna do a video for her. If you wanna be part of it, please send us a video wishing her a happy birthday/saying why you love her (the video has to be 40s maximum). You can also send fan arts, pictures of yourselves or write a message. Please send us your messages by email until April 11th. Email: [email protected] If you have any questions, just message me or come talk to us on twitter! Organized by @whybennetand@chlosbennet
Looks like the earliest I’ll be leaving is tomorrow when more ships come to port, most the bars have already scooped up the latest shipment of rum for the coming warm season. Speaking of the warm season, I’ve decided to review a local treat this Werewolf Wednesday.
Portsmouth being as far south as it is has a rather warm climate, folks around here have taken to making chilled snacks to help pass the time in the hottest parts of the day. Snow cones are the most popular so I decided to review this local cuisine.
Should you give a Hoot ? Overall: Yes, I’m sure there’s a flavor out there for everyone. Hands down my favorite was purple somberry. A lovely dark color with that dull sweet flavor the berries are so well known for. Of note is that the berries are crushed whole daily!
You can tell because the snow cone actually numbs your tongue a little by the end, you’d only get that if the seeds were damaged and their essence hasn’t had time to break down. The sky-lily nectar flavor also stood out to me.
It really doesn’t visually stand out since the nectar is colorless, and neither does the flavor. That’s the best part though, your palate can never grow tired of the subtle flavor and you can really enjoy the experience, it’s almost meditative.
…I’ll need to try the other flavors before I leave town.
Howdy y’all, ya boi Klah has just made it to the beach at Portsmouth for Werewolf Wednesday. Even cresting the hill above the bay I could tell things have really changed here. There were some fancy new fishing boats departing the docks.
Business is really booming here, looks like a new company has moved in and built a big building in the center of town. Some group called the “Happy Salmon Co.” I was checking around and it looked like my old hole in the wall I used to go was torn down.
While taking in the new layout and searching for a new place to stay I spotted something curious near the water under the pier. There was a lil Butt-bird poking around the rocks. Normally they prefer to hide near marsh grass so it seemed unusual to find one here.
When I tried to get closer to investigate it spotted me and scurried off into a big pipe that seems to connect to the sewers or something. Maybe it’s time for more tunnel spelunking? I’m sure new Butt-bird behavior like this is worth documenting!
Well, it was finally time to leave those folks out by the Ice Lagoons alone and get a move on. I’m glad they haven’t sent anyone to track me down yet since I’m having fun with all the freedom I have for myself and Werewolf Wednesday.
Speaking of the village - We ended up partying so much that between us, the weather, and the road closures around the monster kingdom they’ve missed quite a few shipments of b̶o̶o̶z̶e̶ supplies! I told them I used to be something of a supply runner before my current gig.
So I’m heading South to find a nice port town and pick up some rum, that’ll be a nice treat to repay their kindness I think! I really will miss them, first place I stopped kicked me out before I even opened my mouth Guess I forgot how wild my hair had gotten…
I passed through the Greenbelt Forest again, looks like Kul and Xinul are still on edge from the fire, they haven’t totally settled in yet so I couldn’t stick around long. Exciting news though, according to the pack… Xinul is expecting some pups!
When I said that Kul must be excited too, the pack didn’t have much to say… I forgot Kul only just stepped up to lead the pack, so these pups may be of Xinul’s late mate. Wolf time moves so much differently, I get mixed up when I’m not around.
Huh … well, welcome back to another Werewolf Wednesday y’all. Feeling fresh and recovered this week I decided to trek out and follow up on the rumors floating about the Ice Lagoons to see if I could explain the phenomena. I’m not sure I solved anything though.
As you may imagine the Ice Lagoons are generally not a very hospitable sort of biome, so I went dressed this time for a long trek. And long it was, hours along the desolate black sandy shores and trackless iceberg ridden waters.
After the wonder of the place wore off an eerie feeling began to sink in- wasn’t this place supposed to be known for its unique endemic life? Where was everything? Where was anything? Just as I had begun to ponder that a strange noise broke the silence.
It was like a voice? but somehow off- like a crow or a parrot imitating a human perhaps? No that’s not quite right. The way it carried on the wind was strange too, I couldn’t seem to track it with how it seemed to bounce off the ice, no matter how long I spent listening.
Eventually I only had another hour of good daylight left and I was getting hungry, so I decided it was time to turn back. That’s when I spotted a lone sea lion… was the sound coming from it? I whistled to grab it’s attention, but when it turned I swear it had a woman’s face.
I was shocked, but before I could even blink the creature had slipped into the water and out of sight for good. That’s another one for the list of weird crap I’ve run into. Well anyways, I’m drinking off the experience now and planning my next move. Until next time y’all, cheers!
Well, this little village turned out to be way more entertaining than I would have ever expected. It’s a nice change of pace to meet such amiable folk. We really made the best of getting snowed in during an unseasonal cold snap.
I’m glad they’re well prepared for this kind of thing, we had plenty of firewood, food, and most importantly booze to keep us going. Of course, I kept my mind at least a little on how I could fill my journal with new information.
They were more than happy to exchange stories. We used the Ice Rabbits I had caught and they taught me the recipe for curing them. But most interesting they had some more recent rumors about the Ice Lagoons.
Normally the only sights to see are fish and sea lions resting on the glaciers, picturesque and generally serene. However, folks traveling by lately have reported seeing faces lurking in the water or behind the ice.
Any attempts to call out or otherwise engage these have only seen them watching blankly or retreating into the inky depths. The oddities of the world have been quite… restless? On the plus side, that means I’ve got job security.
Sorry about the delay on the usual Werewolf Wednesday you all expect. My fingers are just now thawing out enough to report back I figured since I had already been through the area recently I’d make another trip up north to explore some of the culture and wildlife there.
There’s a peculiar breed of rabbits that can be found in abundance around Ice Lagoons and parts of the Monster Kingdom. While many rabbits that are found in temperate climates have a distinct white winter coat they develop, these rabbits never leave the cold and keep a white coat.
They can rarely be found as far east as Kulningvale from what I’ve heard, when they migrate during colder years. I figured crossing the border into the monster kingdom would be a bad idea given the political climate, so I tried to find some communities near the Ice Lagoons.
I found a cozy little logging village to settle in and explore around. See these ice rabbits are considered a local delicacy in the north, apparently normal methods of cooking ruin the flavor so it’s cured in the cold- shaving thin cuts off to serve.
Unfortunately the rumors I had heard didn’t include anything about how dangerous they could be when cornered, especially to someone dressed as light as me. I managed to track some down and catch a few in a trap. When I went to retrieve them they bit my hands and through my shoes.
Waves of cold shot through my limbs, it was a very unusual sensation… I’m not sure exactly of the mechanism but I’m all too familiar with the end result. They were easy prey but I still suffered some painful frostbite. The locals have been kind enough to let me recover here.
SUUHH, Klah again! Continuing on from last week - After a little searching I finally found where I was meet the crew.
Uh, well the ship was an ABSOLUTE mess… asking around some locals reluctantly pointed me to the cheapest bar in town and to look for the ‘loud oafs’ if I want to find the crew. Turns out they were monsters, much to my surprise. And uh, these guys were anything but typical.
For as tough as they were acting they sure turned into a bumbling mess when I brought up the ticket and that the damn thing nearly killed me… In the end they weren’t the lil guys, but I never did get my cruise. So they bought me a drink instead? Oh well lol, probs for the best.
Eyoo been a while y’all but looks like yer boi Klah has another story for y’all. With winter creeping up on us here at the hideout I decided it would be a prescient decision to stock the place with more booze before we got snowed in
I figured, being the nice guy I am, I should check up on my friends out by the Ice Lagoons while I was at it. Lucky for me there is a little port town on the west coast out that way where I could pick up some rum… that damn rum.
See I thought I was in for a good deal, got a few cases of the stuff for real cheap, something about it being tampered with? Dunno everything seemed fine but the FIRST damn bottle I was polishing off I damn near choke on some crude little ‘ticket’ that was slipped in there!
“Congratlations! You’o won a cruise on the beutiful Ice Lagoons” [sic]
Well, ain’t that interesting. I was equal parts curious and indignant so I decided to follow up back at port. I’ll catch up with y’all on Wednesday once I make some progress in this investigation.
Eyooo!! Been a long time y’all, but ya boi Klah’s been ️️〰️️️ o b s e r v i n g. I saw a lot of hype online about this feast y’all do and got it in my head that my pals and I at the hideout oughta join in the fun. Needless to say the idea was an easy pitch lol
It’s not terribly uncommon this time of year for harvest festivals and the like so it wasn’t too hard for me to get everything I needed so long as I was willing to trek around a bit. People were a little less willing to sell much of their harvest to some stranger than I thought…
BUT THEN… but then it came time to get the ‘turkey’ and here I’m thinking wut tf is a turkey… Looks kinda like a butt-bird ngl and that’s what folks here generally eat. I had already traveled south again to the port, which just so happens to be prime butt-bird grounds…
So there I am, bundled up trying to play it cool and perusing the market square when I spot a BIG OL BUTT-BIRD in a cage, guess they caught it that morning? Either way I thought that’d be perfect since I don’t gotta worry about it spoilin’ on the road yea?
Well… as I got closer the poor thing looked so miserable and I remembered back to the weird incident I had at the beach and in the tunnels… Maybe it was just my imagination but as much as a bird can cry this one was.
If there’s a chance these guys are as smart as I think they are I decided it ain’t worth it. I lept into action and snatched up the cage and rushed off to the tunnels by the beach and let him go. The lil guy took off but it stopped to look back for a while before disappearing.
Anyways, I improvised and made a wild-boar, squash, apple and nettle stew so we’re good on protein here lol. I uh.. I’m gonna drink some mulled wine and think about life for the rest of the night
YOOOOOO LETS GOOOOOO! This Werewolf Wednesday is presented to you by WOLF PUPS, and of course ya boi Klah. Astute readers may remember that my good friend Xinul was expecting some time back, and I decided it was about time to check in on her pack!
Low key though, this is a good chance for me to keep the New Jade goons from finding my favorite hang out spot. Sammy sent me a screenshot of an email amongst some of the management looking for ‘volunteers’ to go on another ‘visit’ to the Monster Kingdom. NO THANKS.
Anyways, it lined up well with my plans to go check on things in the Greenbelt Forest. When I crashed their little party I learned a few interesting things. Apparently Xinul only had a single pup, but at least some others in the pack were expecting too!
These pups have been quite the handful, luckily this isn’t my first rodeo or… pupeo? Their favorite game is fetch, but it would be a grave mistake to call it that in front of them. They insist on calling it “real time chase coordination and visual acuity hunting practice” Ha!
I’ll leave the Wolf Yodeling practice to the parents I think I’ll try and stay here until their naming ceremony, partly to help me remember all these lil ones, and partly because I wanna be remembered as a fun uncle, or funcle if you will.
