Pricing. Some Uncomfortable Realities.
Greetings from all of us at Beautiful Day!
After being scattered across the city, we recently moved to a brand new space where all our operations are under one roof. We love it. For the very first time, we are literally “home for the holidays.” But to be honest, we don’t feel completely at home there yet. Everything is still so new. Maybe this is appropriate since we work with refugees who have left behind everything that’s familiar. They experience profound disruption and isolation as they struggle to adjust to a new culture with strange traditions like pine trees in the living room and a fat man in...
Our "Band Aid Bar" Campaign Ends with a Bang
Beautiful Day Goes to Middle School
Teacher Joe Baer talks with 8th grade students enrolled in Wheeler School'sCityside Program (Pre-Covid photo) That's right, now we're in middle school - at the Wheeler School in Providence to be exact! We've been working all semester with teacher Joe Baer, Director of the Cityside Program, a special year-long class at Wheeler that all 8th graders take part in, where students collaborate with local nonprofits and other stakeholders to produce projects designed to promote positive change in Rhode Island. Working off-campus, students form groups of 3 or 4 and decide together on an area of interest to focus on. The groups then reach out to organizations or individuals...
Portrait of an Extraordinary Woman: Aline
Today is International Women's Day and we are featuring Aline Binyungu, a former refugee from DRCongo who has dedicated her life to helping women and girls. Many of you know her as the co-founder of Women's Refugee Care, along with her husband, Clement Shabani. This is an organization dedicated to supporting refugee families primarily from East Africa. Rebecca spoke to Aline to learn more about her life's work. Rebecca: When you were growing up in the DRCongo, what made you decide that you wanted to work with girls and women? Aline: When I was little, my mother was always feeling depressed because she had...