How are you? Wishing you a happy week.
I am doing okay –
I am excited to be doing something new and I hope it takes off.
Maybe you can help?
I’m having trouble communicating with people to spread the word.
It’s hard to cut through the noise.
Here’s what I am doing:
Live Coworks for Charity
What is it?
This is a free chill hangout space to find your grounding, and work on your creative, growth or work project like journaling, writing, doing tasks or organizing your ideas.
And when you watch you are doing good:
helping to raise a few hundred dollars in fees for a young woman in college.
She’s from a place in Sierra Leone, where only 10-20% can read, and only 1% of women graduate.
This is a lifechanging way to support women to escape poverty, abuse and violence and get a good job and without the success of our fundraiser, she will have to drop out.
How much is it ?
Free to attend! Free to support! Free to help!
Tips are welcome but no donation required. Everyone who joins us is helping us spread the word, and that alone is appreciated. Come do good with us!!
Where?
On youtube: You see the first Cowork for Charity I just recorded here now
Make sure to hit the bell on Youtube not only subscribe to all my videos but get notified the next time we go live for a cowork session!
How to help?
Watching, liking, commenting or sharing with a friend help us to spread the world!
The Back story:
Right now social media platforms are changing like crazy and I’m pretty sure their algorithms all hate me (cries). Haha no just kidding…but maybe?
It’s bad timing because I have something important to say.
As you may know I work with a charity called Her Future Foundation to protect girls and women from FGM and human rights abuse in Sierra Leone.
I’ve personally given a lot of money to support them in recent months. Their founder was in the hospital last week, so we donated then and also in December and also in the fall…
So unfortunately when I got another request this week, I couldn’t donate all that much.
I think a lot of us are stretched thin right now.
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But basically one of the young ladies I was able to help with a fundraiser last year needs help now.
Last year I rallied the community for her college fees so she could stay in college for one year.
I named Ismatu, “The Girl Wonder” because of her amazing skill at debating for women’s right to an education and against female genital mutiliation and inequality. She was a very brave teenage girl advocating for women’s rights out of sheer passion.
Raising the money for her college fees last year was something amazing we as a community did in 24 hours in 2024,
but it’s just not the same situation this year, this week. Given the LA fires and so much else.
Ismatu is now entering her second year and needs $380 USD ASAP to pay for equipment for her microbiology lab class. This science track will ensure she has a job after college. Good news – we have $80 including some left from our December fundraiser,
and just need $300 more.
So solution time…
I wanted to think of a way to invite more people into this movement to change her life.
Even people who cannot donate right now could be a part of the movement to just help spread the word.
So that’s when I got the idea for Cowork for Charity because
not only can we build community to achieve our personal goals and make progress on things important to us,
but we can also use our hangout time as a vehicle to keep spreading the word about Ismatu until hopefully we find enough people to help Ismatu not only get her lab equipment but also eventually pay for her next year of college.
Anyone watching the youtube video, liking, sharing it, commenting, will help us spread the word even if you can’t give funds!
IT IS ALL GOOD
We can all do good together with this project.
I hope that motivates you to turn on this Cowork for Charity replay.
Play the video, comment, like it and watch out for more.
Additional live Cowork for Charity events coming soon – I will be trying to make them better and more fun every time!
This is just the beginning.
Let’s do our work and do good at the same time.
Please check out this video, like, and comment to spread the word!!
It’s for a good cause 
If you want to donate
Send your donation to one of the places below.
The suggested donation is $25 but ANY amount helps.
You will be sending your money to me, Sofia
I will then be transferring money to Her Future Foundation in Sierra Leone who will work with Ismatu to pay her fees.
- Venmo @Sofia-Nitchie or
- PayPal https://www.paypal.me/SofiaNitchie
If you have questions like about the legitimacy of the organization, or the project, feel free to contact me.
See the tally of how much we need with daily updates at the general fundraiser page here
REMEMBER:
If you can’t donate that’s okay!
Please just enjoy the Cowork for Charity video so we can get that out to more people
