Every fall I order socks from our friends at Kullakas women's knitting cooperative down in La Paz, Bolivia, to give to various charities. This year, I ordered the socks through Nest, a not-for-profit organization helping women's crafts cooperatives, founded and operated by Rebecca Kousky. Rebecca has graciously agreed to highlight Kullakas products. A small percentage of the sales from Kullakas goes to Nest, to help Rebecca give funding to even more women's crafts cooperatives so they can buy essential supplies and get "off the ground and running" as a business.The socks will be going to a local charity this year, Hannah's Socks. Hannah is the cutest little girl you could imagine, with her own not-for-profit to boot! Hannah served at a soup kitchen with her parents on Thanksgiving, and saw that one of their guests was not wearing socks even though it was freezing outside. She told her mother she'd like to give the man her own socks so he could stay warm. Hannah's Socks took off from there, collecting and distributing over 40,000 pairs of socks to individuals in need in both Toledo and Cincinnati.
So, once again, we thank Kullakas for providing us with hand knit, ultra-warm socks, to provide in turn to those in need.
Check out these two really wonderful organizations:
www.buildanest.com
www.hannahssocks.org
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