Kind Karma Inspiration — blog

Happy Easter and Happy Passover to those celebrating! Although these are less than ordinary times, we still hope you are able to find some way to make these days special. With that said, we wanted to continue highlighting the good works that amazing individuals are doing in the world so we can shine a light on positive accomplishments to combat the negative news that seems to pervade our channels during these times. This week, we want you to meet Cassandra Ciarallo, the founder of Chic Made Consciously who was also inspired to start her amazing intiative through a chance encounter....

"Being homeless can be a very isolating experience. Whenever I would go to school, I always felt different from everyone else. While everyone else would leave school and go back home to their family, I would leave to go back to a shelter. I would get sad, almost pitiful, looks from my teachers and other students who knew my situation. I began to feel so alone in school, I almost wanted to stop going. Even now in university, I still feel like people know that I had been homeless for the past two years, and it makes me feel anxious and...

There are so many reasons we spend money and they aren't always good ones. We consume then discard in a cycle that has led the fashion industry to become the second largest source of pollution in the world. As we move towards creating more sustainable lifestyles, this blog post from one of our youth's personal experiences highlights some of the reasons behind spending - especially for those who are in unhappy situations. "When I first became homeless, I had over $10,000 saved up in my bank account. I was only 16, and did not understand the value of money, and how to...

It is easy to view homeless individuals through stereotypical lenses that they are homeless through bad choices or criminal actions but the truth is, most of the youth are there as a result of situations they cannot control. In a national survey, almost 80% of homeless youth reported leaving home because of abusive relationships and 63% of homeless youth reported childhood trauma and abuse. This account, from one of our youth employees, tells her story of how she ended up on the streets.