Article and Photography by Erica Simone When Monica first told me months ago that we would be leading a project in Ghana, I honestly didn’t know what to expect. I had never considered traveling to Ghana, mainly because I didn’t know anything about it, but as...
Article by Shannon Mac Ardhail Many people hire a Rhode Island portrait photographer to capture their portrait because they want to keep this moment in their life forever and have something to look back on in the future. Portraits are a great way to capture the...
Article By Zephy Photography by Challenging Heights It’s been twenty-four hours since we’ve arrived in Ghana, a vibrant country filled with gregarious and good-natured people. We’ve been greeted with an abundance of huge, kind smiles, graciousness, and plenty of fried rice. For our first day, the BFF...
Beauty for Freedom is trying to be a leading voice in the fight against child trafficking. "Raising awareness" is a slippery phrase. It can connote empty shows of solidarity rather than actual work, like performatively changing a profile pic after a tragedy. There's a good amount of...
Beauty for Freedom and The Line Presented Project Ghana “World Day Against Child Labor” Panel Discussion June 13th Featuring Survivor of Child Slavery and President of Challenging Heights James Kofi-Annan, Emmy award-winning journalist Benjamin Skinner, Survivor/Advocate Ima Matul, Rescue & Recovery Specialist Vincent Lyn, Motivational Speaker and...
Beauty for Freedom and The Line Present Project Ghana “World Day Against Child Labor” Panel Discussion June 13th 7-9pm Featuring Survivor of Child Slavery and President of Challenging Heights James Kofi-Annan, Emmy award-winning journalist Benjamin Skinner, Survivor/Advocate Ima Matul, Rescue & Recovery Specialist Vincent Lyn, Motivational Speaker, and Rwandan Genocide Survivor Consolee...
DIASPORA—Today marks the 15th annual World Day Against Child Labor, launched in 2002 but the International Labour Organization as a call to action to help eliminate forced child labor globally. Millions around the world, including civil activists, labor unions, government leaders and everyday citizens are working to...
Our world is definitely not lacking in problems, whether they be political, social, environmental or humanitarian. And while the media mostly centers its emphasis on the U.S. political climate or the war on terrorism, one pressing concern might not be getting the attention it deserves: human trafficking. One...
“I am not free while any[one] is unfree, even when [their] shackles are very different from my own.” —Audre Lorde World Day Against Child Labor (WDACL) is on June 12, and the issue of human trafficking is once again taking center stage. In support of WDACL, anti-trafficking organizations around...
Videography & Editing by Marc Birnbach “Illuminate” Art Auction at The Handy Liquor Bar Supporting Survivors of Sex Trafficking and At-Risk Youth Hosted by Olesya Senchenko and Vika Levina Wednesday, April 12th 7-10pm, Supermodels Olesya Senchenko and Vika Levina hosted an art auction and cocktail reception...