Loveland Organization Focuses on Helping African Refugees and Women Around the World with Holiday Market this Saturday

Think Humanity, a Loveland-based nonprofit that helps African refugees, is offering the local community a way to give gifts with a greater reach this holiday season. The group, along with the nonprofit Africa Bags, is holding a Fair Trade Open House and Holiday Market for women around the world at Loveland Museum & Gallery from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 10th.

The event will feature handcrafted jewelry, bags and other unique and meaningful gifts handmade by refugee women in Uganda. The event promotes fair trade and support for the Acholi, and 100 percent of profits and donations will be returned to the women.

• What: Fair Trade Open House and Holiday Market
• When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10
• Where: Loveland Museum & Gallery, Foote Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, CO 80537
• Benefits: Refugee women in Uganda, and anyone who receives these unique and meaningful Christmas gifts.
• More info: Thinkhumanity.org

Think Humanity has been assisting refugees since May 2007 and we became an established nonprofit in December 2007. It began in 2006 when Loveland native Aimee Heckel traveled to Uganda as a journalist on assignment. She visited the Kyangwali Refugee Camp on the border of Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is when her family became aware of the devastating consequences that the lack of education, malaria and other diseases were having in refugee camps. Yet it was so easy for people back home to help. Thus, the nonprofit was founded. Since then, this local, grassroots group has helped save the lives of tens of thousands of refugees and orphans.

[ via Thinkhumanity.org ]