I want to extend a huge thank you and congratulations to all my customers of SHINE, your purchases have helped make possible, Rock Your SHINE, the Massai Choir Recording Empowerment Initiative.
Little Lady Studio’s Rock Your SHINE project supports empowerment through creativity and music. We will be sponsoring the Massai Remiti Choir Recording in Tanzania. The objective is to provide seed money and to help facilitate planning for the recording of an album of the choir. The income generated from the album will help sustain future choir initiatives and help to establish further goals for the community. With the continued hardwork of WEECE, this project initiative is one more building block added to WEECE’s integrated approach in addressing the needs of the people of the Kilimanjaro region. The choir is a positive education and interaction model that provides an opportunity for the young women and men of the Massai tribe to be active participants in their community, self-confident and expressive which bridges communication for larger gender and social issues. LLS will be involved in coordinating the recording, assisting in the artwork for the album and continuing awareness initiatives.
Jessey’s Inspiration
Last August while I was volunteering at WEECE, Mama Mrema and I had numerous discussions exploring working with one another. There was no clear vision at that point but we were both confident that by putting our heads together we’d get a sense if our goals were parallel. One of the opportunities Mama provided me was a visit to the Massai tribe and to hear the choir, I was encouraged by the motivation and the collective creativity of the group, so the inspiration started flowing. After three weeks of absorbing the experience I said my farewells to Mama and assured her that I would follow up after I had some time to put my head around our meeting. The launch of Social SHINE jewelry was the first step in celebrating individual character and creativity and the next step is connecting it back to the goals at the studio which include the continued social involvement in awareness and empowerment initiatives. Rock Your SHINE is really an opportunity to bring us (ladies of the world) together…to work together, to celebrate together and to socially SHINE together.
As a proprietor of SHINE, you wear a bold message of the power and potential of our own two hands. This power when shared with others is how significant change occurs. I will be returning to Tanzania to assist and document the project, tentatively planned for July 2012. I look forward to keeping you updated with further announcements and for the launch of a Special Edition to celebrate the project and please see here for additional information about our empowerment initiatives.
Let OUR Socidividuality continue to SHINE!
Jessey
