Giving Back

At Web Malama, helping the poor, the oppressed, and the helpless are core values. This year we gave time and money to various organizations affecting people around the world — including $350 that celebrates Christmas by supporting a cause that we consider particularly important: hope for sexually exploited girls.

I invite you to celebrate Christmas along with me by learning about these organizations, the great work they’re doing, and how you can support them.

Hope for Exploited Girls

An estimated 2 million children are enslaved and abused in the global commercial sex trade — most of them girls. Many children are sold into prostitution to pay off family debts or forcibly recruited from the street to work in brothels.

Girls who escape or are rescued face a difficult physical and emotional recovery process. “I wanted to run away, but I had nothing, and my family was too far away,” remembers 15-year-old Sophea*. “Life was unbearable … worst were the beatings if I said ‘no.’”

Hope for Sexually Exploited Girls

World Vision

Income for the Poor

Proximity Designs uses a design-centric approach identifying high-impact opportunities to boost agricultural productivity and increase income for millions of smallholder farm families. The pioneering on-the-ground enterprise in Myanmar (Burma) designs, builds, and markets affordable products and services that vulnerable rural families use to transform their lives: they design with empathy. So far more than 90,000 income-boosting products and service have been sold, changing the lives of more than 400,000 people.

Proximity Designs

Control for Those with Breast Cancer

Ready for Recovery™ is a cancer treatment planning system that helps ground and focus patients, alleviating fear and confusion while providing direction, support and inspiration. The planning guide was created by cancer survivor Julie Grimm who, after a double mastectomy, a lymph node dissection and reconstructive surgery, completed her sixth and final chemo treatment. “I had no choice but to create some type of order out of the chaos so I began designing a system for myself to track the endless information, appointments, and treatment options that came my way. I needed to be prepared for the decisions, procedures and emotions I had to face every day.”

Ready for Recovery