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Juanita Kelly is a dressmaker from Plainfield New Jersey. She is a Grasp Seamstress and holds a number of levels from Rutgers College. Kelly began out modeling on the age of 10 and after 14 years determined to open her personal modeling and expertise company. On the identical time, Kelly launched her first clothes line known as ETC Fashions. In 2000, Kelly was recognized with most cancers and needed to take a break from all her enterprise endeavors. After years of preventing, she gained the battle and was capable of proceed working within the fields that she cherished. In 2008 Kelly began Goddess by Juanita Kelly, a plus-size clothes line. To not point out Kelly has her personal on-line radio present known as Goddess Discuss in addition to her personal journal known as Goddess Journal. Suppose there’s something Kelly hasn’t carried out? Suppose once more! In 2010, Kelly launched The Juanita Kelly Publications and Juanita Kelly Productions in addition to beginning New Jersey Vogue and Magnificence Associations.
Juanita Kelly Foundation was first began with assist teams in Juanita Kelly’s house which she opened as much as girls that had been struggling in 2010. Since these house conferences the muse has expanded to any and all lady who want assist in totally different points of their lives. They concentrate on serving to each lady reside a lifetime of power and path. The Basis helps those that endure from most cancers, dependancy and home violence in addition to serving to these in want of a change, some emotional stability, enterprise mentoring and coaching and providing lady scholarships grants and empowerment.
Interview Carried out By way of Electronic mail By: Giacinta Tempo
Introduction By: Meg Zrini
Q: What’s your charity?
Juanita: Juanita Kelly Basis: Altering Ladies’s Lives One Ladies at a Time.
Q: What’s your function with the group?
Juanita: The Juanita Kelly Basis began in 2010 by Juanita Kelly who’s a survivor of home violence in addition to mind most cancers. Juanita first began by opening her house for assist teams to girls that suffered by abuse, most cancers and dependancy issues. As a life coach, Juanita was capable of assist girls regain their inside magnificence and love for themselves. The muse itself is targeted to all girls together with girls who’ve or have had most cancers, skilled home violence, in want of transformation counseling, emotional stability, self-help, schooling on well being and wellness, enterprise mentoring, job coaching for low revenue girls, scholarships, grants and ladies empowerment. We would like all girls to have the ability to reside a lifetime of independence, power and path and so, as a company we want to make that doable.
Q: Why does this charity stand out above the remaining?
Juanita: The Juanita Kelly Basis, a non-profit group exists to supply transitional counseling to girls of all ages by using assist teams and life teaching. Our mission at The Juanita Kelly Basis is to affix girls from all walks of life by friendship, belief, and unconditional love and acceptance, whereas offering the instruments essential for them to beat obstacles and obtain their targets. We at The Juanita Kelly Basis don’t query the ladies’s values nor can we make selections for them. Fairly we provide a secure haven; a supportive environment freed from judgment through which to facilitate constructive adjustments inside their life following battles with dependancy, home violence, and sickness. The Juanita Kelly Basis gives assist group assist, counseling and assist to all the ladies in New Jersey who’re making an attempt to enhance their many points of their lives. Our teams are motivational and meet as soon as every week and talk about how we really feel about ourselves. We cry, snicker and share collectively. We study to like ourselves and heal ourselves.
*Grief Assist
*Battered Womens Assist
*Study to Love Your self Assist
*Ladies Encouraging Ladies
*Teen Women Assist
*Womens Weightloss Assist
We additionally assist encourage girls attain their fullest potential with life teaching. Life teaching is a much less diagnostic, analytical, department of psychology, which focuses straight on the shoppers’ targets and readiness to make adjustments of their lives. The aim of life teaching is to work both one on one or inside a gaggle, the place a “coach” contributes by providing useful recommendation and assist. The Juanita Kelly Basis provides a mixed 35 years of expertise in bringing assist to girls of all ages in reaching their targets, whereas offering a secure haven the place judgment is left on the door. Though all girls are welcome to strive our life teaching providers, The Juanita Kelly Basis specializes in-group or particular person periods pertaining to: Relationship Teaching, Private/Management Teaching, Enterprise Teaching, Time Administration Teaching, Father or mother/Adolescent Teaching, Grief/Mourning Teaching, Habit/Restoration Teaching, Retirement Teaching, Weight Loss Administration Teaching, and Creativity Teaching.
Q: Anything you wish to add?
Juanita: We at The Juanita Kelly Basis are completely satisfied to tell you of our current and previous occasion that are geared to encourage, empower and assist these much less lucky.
Current occasions:
Promenade Costume Drive February2013- Could 2013 – Proms all world wide are arising quickly and plenty of younger girls would like to have the luxurious of an occasion equivalent to promenade, however usually are not capable of attributable to financial conditions particularly with the onerous instances of our economic system. Juanita Kelly Basis hosts an annual promenade drive the place we ask for donations of recent or gently used promenade gown, good conditioned sneakers, and or equipment.
Previous occasions of 2010-2012
Christmas Coat/Toy Drive December 2012 – In the course of the Christmas season the Juanita Kelly Basis wish to unfold Pleasure and Happiness. We host our annual coat/toy drive to present again to much less lucky kids by preserving kids heat and within the Christmas spirit throughout winter by accumulating new or gently used coats and unopened toys.
Thanksgiving Meals Drive – For Thanksgiving Vacation we on the basis present turkey dinners with trimmings to needy households. The donations are given to households to benefit from the Thanksgiving vacation.
Money for Curtains – The Juanita Kelly Basis joined with Metropolitan Window Fashions and its “Money for Curtains” trade-in promotion to supply low-income households with gently used window therapies. Prospects of Metropolitan Window Fashions who select to make the most of this commerce in alternative obtained a credit score of as much as $100 in worth per window in direction of the acquisition of recent, vitality environment friendly window coverings. These donate window remedy had been than given to The Juanita Kelly Basis and we than had them cleaned and donated them to needy girls who may use these window therapies .
Easter Basket Drive – Juanita Kelly Basis runs an annual Easter Basket Drive. We ask for Easter Baskets for boys/ladies to assist be certain that a baby enjoys the Easter vacation season.
Again to College Drive – Juanita Kelly Basis believes that each youngster deserves to begin his or her first day of sophistication totally geared up to study. With the assist of caring neighborhood members, our annual Again to College Drive gives important provides for youngsters in want. We’re devoted to making ready children for his or her tutorial futures. With donations we’re capable of present backpacks and provides on to needy college students. We gather new backpacks and college provides for youngsters ages Kindergarten by sixth grade for the 2012-13 tutorial 12 months. In an effort to assist these kids put their greatest foot ahead on the primary day of college, we’re additionally gather $10 reward playing cards to Payless Shoe Supply, in addition to $10 reward for Supercuts.
I’m Magnificence, I’m Love, I’m Me – Younger ladies between the ages of 13-19 be a part of us for a day of enjoyable, video games and togetherness. . The Juanita Kelly Basis is hosts its annual I’m Magnificence, I’m Love, I’m Me teen ladies vanity occasion. This occasion not solely brings consciousness to teen ladies on how necessary vanity is to their pals and to themselves however how teenagers ought to embrace and assist each other by coming collectively and having enjoyable for a day.
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