SOCIAL IMPACT

Starting 2025 with deep gratitude for the opportunity to bring smiles, books (translated in French), and food staples to the brave children of an incredible orphanage in Kinshasa, Congo🇨🇩—a place that serves as home, safe haven, and family for Congolese kids of all ages—ONG SECAMS. Thank YOU!

Our Water's Journey!💧 This year, four water districts partnered to host a water awareness poster contest in local elementary schools. Skyler Farasat's art was selected as one of the 12 winning posters! 

Thank you San Juan Water District for publishing the 2025 Calendar to raise awareness about water - the rhythm of life, flowing through every heartbeat. Stay hydrated. Turn off the tap. Reuse water when possible. Report leaks. Keep water sources clean. And let's learn where water comes from! 

Honor of a lifetime conversing with indigenous Maasai people of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam on modern day topics. 

Maasai wisdom: Try to be more sustainable than the 'take, take, take' and 'more and more' attitude. Maasai warriors are known for being content with what they have, and for learning to be happy throughout the day. The traditional greeting among the Maasai is "All the children are well!" that shows the importance the Maasai place on the well-being of children. Our📚 are Maasai approved✅

Skyler is a library kid, and with summer break here, she is thrilled to be raising awareness and participating in the Library Summer Reading Challenge! Skyler feels that ANY reading is good reading! 1 book over summer is good reading. 25 books a week is good reading. Audio book is good reading, and so is cookbooks and magazines. It all counts!🏅

We wish more kids and parents know about how impactful public libraries are! They are absolutely free, treasures of knowledge, relaxation and fun for all

In honor of National Foster Care Awareness Month (May) and Big Day Of Giving (May 2) Skyler wrote an article to encourage families to foster and adopt teens. Another humbling experience of utilizing storytelling to amplify and fundraise for an important cause that empowers youth! 

Thank you FosterHope team for this powerful opportunity to partner with you to raise awareness on the importance of opening our hearts to teens, and to raise funds to expand your essential Creating Community Program. 

Our book-baby 'Me and the Universe' has gone places we had never imagined! We're humbled and held by knowing about all the little hands of humanity's future that our 1st book has been in! The smiles, the joy, and the catalytic positive reinforcement it has co-created with your kids. 

Thank you to CEO of Aerie Africa for taking our books to Soddo, Ethiopia. Your nonprofit is not an 'orphanage' but a home and forever family for the most beautiful and resilient children of tomorrow! ❤️

In honor of National Burn Awareness Week (Feb 4 - 11) Skyler interviewed a brave burn patient who is just 11 years old and wrote an eye-opening and inspirational Patient Story. What an honor and humbling experience of utilizing storytelling to amplify an urgent cause and to deliver a call-to-action towards prevention! 

Thank you Shriners team for this powerful opportunity to partner with you to raise awareness on burn safety actions that kids, parents and caregivers can take at home!

Such an empowering and inspiring Hospital Day with Shriner's Director of Marketing & Communications. The agenda was packed with impact:

1. Media Pitch call with CBS 13 News

2. Patient Interview & Jan '24 Patient Story 

3. Patient Ambassador Gift Box

Thank you Shriners NorCal team for this powerful opportunity to shadow and partner with you to raise awareness, impact, and funds for the hospital and its care of healing children and supporting families via strategic corporate marketing efforts. 

Our book So Many Ways To Be Family proudly and intentionally represents and embraces foster children and foster families. We were delighted to be invited to help raise funds for FosterHope and to raise awareness about the power of fostering. Fundraising helps essential nonprofits like FosterHope continue their important work and grow their impact! 

Thank you FosterHope Sacramento for supporting the safety, wellbeing, and fullest potential of foster children and teens of the Greater Sac area 🙏 

Second chances begin here... FosterHope provides essential foster care and supportive services that facilitate healing and help children, teens, and families reach their fullest potential.

Thank you FosterHope Sacramento team for reading our books to the kiddos, and for all that you do for Greater Sac area children and families. Honored to help out at your next Writing Workshop and get your future books of poetry and prose by the kids out in the world! 💪 Excited to refresh your HOPE garden! 🌱