I have been blessed to have the opportunity to be a volunteer for a
wonderful organization called "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep".
This non-profit organization offers infant remembrance photography as
well as providing online resources for families and caregivers of
terminally ill or deceased infants. Donations are tax-deductable. If
you would like to learn more please click the NILMDTS link to the left.
2009 will be my second year as a participating photographer with
The Missouri Heart Gallery Project. Everyone deserves to have
family who love them. If you have an open space in your home and
heart please take a look at these wonderful young men and women
looking to fill that space.
Here is a description from their site:
The Heart Gallery was founded by the New Mexico Children, Youth
and Families Department in 2001 as a unique way to help children
in foster care who are waiting for adoptive families step from the
shadows into the light. Stirring portraits, which reveal the children's
amazing spirits and individuality, have helped many find
permanent, loving homes.
To learn more please click the link to the left.
This organization is local to the Greater Kansas City Area.
Safeplace for Kids works with different child service organizations
as property management, to provide safe, clean, facilities that
are needed for these organizations to house children in need.
Here is the mission statement:
To build and provide safe places for children that will facilitate
residential care, counseling, education, ministry and support
services in relation to domestic and childhood abuse, with the
hope of empowering and transforming abused children,
parents and their families.
Please click the link to the left to learn more.
This is a wonderful group that I am really glad to be a part of.
A group of photographers volunteering their time and products to help
deployed military personell and their families stay close. A quote from the
site:
The last thing on your mind when your wife or husband arrives home
after a 4 to 18 month tour, is capturing all this love– on film.
Most people are so overwhelmed with emotions they forget to simply
point and shoot the camera they are grasping of their child’s first hug,
or that single tear of relief from a mother being able to hold her
twenty year old son again.
With the help of Operation: Love ReUnited and local photographers
near your base, you can.
Click the link to the left to find out more! If you are local to the KC area
you may contact me directly.