NEW ORLEANS – A shelter within the metropolis has a brand new technique to elevate consciousness in regards to the homeless. The New Orleans Ladies’s and Youngsters’s Shelter will host a trend present Saturday for the trigger.
In partnership with the AMIGAS Most cancers Consciousness Initiative, each organizations are excited to assist these in want and provides them a second of care. Organizer Jourdasia Jones says she got here up with the concept for purchasers to get out of their each day routines on the shelter and luxuriate in feeling lovely and secure.
“I hope that the fashions stroll away with the expertise that they had been capable of remodel and turn out to be one other particular person for one evening. They had been capable of do their hair and make-up, placed on lovely attire and have the ability to be seen in a unique mild than one thing else that they expertise day after day within the shelter,” he stated.
One buyer, Lakeisha Channel, tried on two completely different outfits utilizing donated clothes from an area boutique referred to as The Artwork Of Fashion. Sporting a brown jacket, a polka dot gown and black footwear, Channel paced across the room whereas Jones gave her one other black gown to strive on, adorned with a pearl within the middle.
“I really feel so assured that I really feel like I can stroll down the runway,” Channel stated, smiling.
The New Orleans Ladies’s and Youngsters’s Shelter offers intense case administration and complete assist providers to fulfill the wants of each household that walks by the shelter’s doorways.
It is crucial to carry the 2 causes collectively and lift consciousness, stated L’Oreal Ranson, program director on the shelter.
“It is also essential to the shelter that we are able to present mentorship to girls who’re experiencing homelessness. Allow them to know that it isn’t a determined setting, it is a spot the place they are often inspired and empowered. [and] have the ability to assist their households,” Ranson stated.
The style present fundraiser will assist elevate cash for ladies and households in search of everlasting housing, in addition to present sources for necessities and clothes. Additionally for many who undergo from most cancers.
“I am actually enthusiastic about what that may carry,” she stated. “I need us to have a bigger donor base from this, volunteers, individuals reaching out to us inside the group to develop the issues we’d like on the shelter.”
The style present will happen at Southport Corridor on Saturday 20 January at 8pm. These concerned about attending will pay $60 on the door.
Study extra in regards to the New Orleans Ladies and Youngsters’s Shelter right here and the AMIGAS Most cancers Consciousness Initiative right here.
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