Can You Share To Help The Talented But Marginalized Kids Have A Bright Future?

Moving forward with our plan to put up the MindSpring Center for Value-based Learning and Entrepreneurship aimed at providing education and entrepreneurial skills-training to talented but marginalized youth who are deprived of the benefits of education due to poverty, we have identified our would-be beneficiaries and they are the kids aged 10-15 who are presently making handcrafted products for a home-based handicrafts business, just to earn money to augment family income. Some of these kids are out of school owing to financial constraints.

Handicrafts-making being the main livelihood in the community where they live, these kids have acquired skills early in life which now enable them to make products that earn them some income but barely enough to get by. 

Basically, what is needed is research and training in modern crafts-making techniques and  designs to enable them to make products that appeal to today's consumers. Part of our mission is to create market for their products.

We are not condoning child labor with our plan, rather, we want to help them improve further the skills that they already have and motivate them to make the most of their free time producing instead of engaging in juvenile activities that may lead to the commission of petty crimes that progress into more serious social problems as they grow older. 

Much as no one wants to see these kids work just to make a living, it cannot be helped. Reality demands it of them. Either they do or they will have to cease to exist. Household income is just not enough, even with both parents working, to sustain the family's needs.

Below are the pictures of just a few of the products these kids have produced. I have included them here to give you an idea of just what they are capable of doing, per chance that you'd get interested and place an order or donate to our cause.

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