CARE THROUGH ACTION
Newsletter

It’s been a busy summer for all of us at Care Through Action. On July 12 Oprah’s O Magazine profiled our Executive Director, Alissa Everett, in a series called “How they discovered their dream careers”. Over a decade ago, Alissa left her intensely demanding and emotionally unfulfilling job in investment banking to travel the world and document the human costs of war and violence as a documentary photographer. Alissa founded Care Through Action as a way to help the people she had met during her travels whose lives have been torn apart by violence and suffering. You can read the whole article online or pick up a copy of O on the newsstands today.

To prepare for all the wonderful press this article afforded us, we spent the early summer months building a brand new CTA website. On the site, you can find out more about our organization and the people we serve through our amazing partner organizations. You can also now find several ways to help CTA’s programs through direct donations or shopping in our store where we sell some of Alissa’s exclusive photographic images as art prints, greeting cards or calendars. Shop now for a unique and beautiful gift that also helps women and children in the Congo.

In June, Alissa traveled again to the Congo to visit the women we serve at our safe houses and to continue her work on the screening of “Pray the Devil back to Hell” – a series of workshops aimed at empowering Congolese women to engage in peacemaking in their own communities. Tune in to our blog to learn more about her trip.

This fall we will be hosting a few photographic exhibitions of Alissa’s work to raise awareness of the issues and funding for our projects. Stay tuned for details and follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay in engaged with our work and the latest news on events in the Congo.

Thank you so much for your continued support, we couldn’t do it without you!