I’m honored announce my partnership with Lenses of Love: Hearts for Haiti, a national non-profit endeavor dedicated to helping the people of Haiti recover from the recent devastating earthquake.
I will be offering my support to organize relief services by offering both my weekend and weekday session fees for $150, of which, 100% will be donated to relief causes and support for Haiti. Funds raised though Lenses of Love will be sent directly to Kentucky Adoption Services (KAS) who will assist in relief efforts and care of the many-orphaned children of Haiti. KAS works with Brebis de Saint-Michael de L’Attalaye (BRESMA) orphanage in Port au Prince, which was damaged during the earthquake. One-hundred percent of funds donated to KAS as ‘humanitarian aid’ is used for humanitarian aid and all Lenses of Love donations will be marked as “Haiti Relief”. This offer is available for families that book their session by Sunday, February 14, 2010 and complete their session by April 30, 2010.
My amazing friend Sally, who is a photographer in Colorado, started Lenses of Love and I was so happy to be able to join and help out. Everyone in a time of disaster feels the need to just ‘do something’ and thanks to Sally, I’ll be able to help out a little bit more than if I were doing this on my own. Lenses of Love is important to me because as a parent in the process of adopting from China, it was comforting to know people cared and were so willing to help the orphanages after the devastating earthquake in China in 2008. Although many orphans in Haiti did receive humanitarian parole and are home with their parents in the US and other countries across the world, many, including a fellow adoptive parents little boy (please view the story here) still remain in Haiti. The orphans who remain in Haiti as well as those children who have been recently orphaned due to the earthquake are the littlest ones who need support from agencies such as KAS.
