Article featured in Avatar - Volume 3, Issue 12 (June 2010).
Faceless International
by Katrina
No matter who you are, you are blessed with talents that you sometimes don't even know about. This month, I challenge you to look past who you are, on the outside. I challenge you to look within, even if it's just a little bit. Try to find your own talents and your own callings, and think creatively about how you can make a difference! One of my favorite organizations, Faceless International, is June's Cause of the Month. Although it is different than the organizations we've featured in the past, serving more as a coalition of causes and encouragement for change, it is equally important and amazing!
Faceless International was co-founded by Stephen Christian (member of Anberlin) and two of his friends, Seth and Sarah, while on a trip to Haiti. As they began to truly recognize not the positive changes that they were making for their new friends in Haiti, but they positive changes that their new friends in Haiti were making on them, Faceless International was born.
"The purpose behind Faceless is simple. We want to put a face on the many people in our own country and around the world who have gone faceless, or unknown, for so long. Everyday in our own country, people pass by many who are struggling. "
Faceless International wants to serve not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. They want to be the starting point and want to empower and ignite a spark in each and every one of us, to further research and look into the causes that make up the backbone of Faceless International. The organizations currently include Kiva, Do Something Now, Divine Chocolate, Free the Slaves, Stop the Traffik, Made by Survivors, and Land of a Thousand Hills, but Faceless International does not limit itself. It promotes tolerance and passion for ALL causes and truly is making the world a better place, one step at a time.
It only takes three minutes to make a difference. Find out more at:
www.facelessinternational.com.
