We need YOU to help TBP name our next initiative.
What’s in a name? Well, a lot, and quite frankly we need your help.
The Blind Project has two major initiatives, one is Biographe, and the second is ___________. We don’t have a name for it! We have come up with some great names, but we are unable to use those due to duplication of names with other organizations. We have tried, “reveal”, “restore”, “mend”, and nope, nope, and nope…they are all taken.
No worries, because we have you: An army of creative minds, and we are sure you will think of a descriptive, hip, and worthy name for our __________ initiative.
Here are some details. We will accept input on our facebook page until next Saturday, March 6th. At that time, TBP staff will vote on the names, and announce the chosen name and the winner one week later. The people that submitted the top three names, as chosen by TBP staff, will receive a TBP logo t-shirt, and our appreciation.
Mission Statement: ___________ is an initiative that focuses on holistic renewal of those people that have been exploited by the commercial sex trade or are part of an at-risk population in South East Asia by offering restorative programs for health and well-being with our partner organizations.
Examples:
- On the last TBP trip, hundreds of children were given eye-care check-ups and many were fitted with corrective lenses and frames
On the upcoming TBP trip:
- Many girls from a partner organization with receive much needed dental care. This was made possible, having heard of the need, when a donor graciously gave funds to cover the dental care for all the girls in need.
- Optical check-ups will be offered as well as corrective interventions
- TBP Hair and Makeup experts will be doing makeovers, then the girls will have the option to sit for a photograph by one of our professional photographers. She will be given this photograph. (with permission of the girls, some of these photographs may be a part of a TBP gallery exhibit in NYC later this year.)
- A Mental Health Nurse team will join our partner organizations in May to assess what kinds of grants or scholarships will be needed to provide restorative services to those that have been exploited.
This new program, the one YOU may name will not be exclusive to the bi-annual TBP trips to SEA. This new initiative will function year round, and will offer:
- Scholarships for women to learn a trade in the beauty field (example: hair and makeup)
- Provide grants for emergency medical treatment, beyond what the Thai government offers. (example: the optical and dental care needed and given above)
- Provide grants to the exploited women, men, and children, that perceive themselves as permanently broken, in order to receive treatment from well established in-country mental health professionals so they can know how special they are, and that the option of grace allows for a hope that has until now alluded them.
So here is what you do:
- Click on the blog and read the post so you can understand what this initiative is about. (check, you have done this)
- Go back to facebook, under the post, “Help us name our new initiative!”
- Post the name you came up with, and then tell us what inspired you. That’s it.
- Oh, and tell your friends about this open-source contest! We always appreciate that.
Thank you all for helping us,
TBP
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