Arms of Outreach - Giving Hope & Help

Feminine Hygiene Product Drives to End Period Poverty and promote Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention

Giving Hope & Help Inc. launched in honor of the founder’s Thanksgiving birthday. “The Thanksgiving Birthday Give”-Launch of Giving Hope & Help and 1st Annual Feminine Hygiene Product Drive to collect sanitary napkins and tampons. Over 5,000 products were collected to benefit the domestic violence shelter, Hope House in Jackson County- 2 locations. To date, Giving Hope & Help supports 25+ domestic violence shelters/places of refuge. Texas Giving Hope & Help launched Nov. 2015, with the first annual feminine product drive.Giving Hope & Help collects period products and packaged children’s and women’s underwear year-round via partnerships with businesses, organizations, companies, and the community to support the NO FEMALE WITHOUT or NO MENSTRUATOR WITHOUT PERIOD PRODUCTS MOVEMENT. This movement benefits domestic violence survivors (and the shelters in which they live), natural disaster survivors, the homeless community, schools, women, and girls’ organizations and those in need of feminine care locally and across the globe.
Giving Hope & Help has made a global impact to end period poverty. GH&H has shipped feminine products to Cambodia, Nairobi-Kenya, Haiti, Mexico the Bahamas and Ukraine. GH&H has supported over 250 girls with period products and girl’s underwear in Limuru, Kenya from 2017 to the present. To date, GH&H local and global impact has benefited over 50,000 women and girls.
LOVE Bags 4 Cancer Donation & Delivery Events

A portion of the proceeds benefits the American Cancer Society and cancer nonprofits. The LOVE Bags 4 Cancer initiative uplifts hospitalized male and female cancer patients annually in honor of Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. Over six hundred cancer patients have been inspired and uplifted with the LOVE Bags 4 Cancer since February 2015. Jessica was inspired to launch this initiative in honor of her late niece who fought cancer for six years. Giving Hope & Help has partnered with Kansas City metro area hospitals in Kansas and Missouri to deliver the LOVE Bags 4 Cancer.
Education Is Your Passport Program (EIYP)

The program provides educational and financial assistance for Pre-K through adult college students. The program's annual scholarship initiative: The Education Is Your Passport Scholarship Program, benefits underserved high school seniors and non-traditional, college bound students. During the 2020 and 2021 pandemic, the program awarded thirty college scholarships in addition to 1 FULL-RIDE SCHOLARSHIP to Metropolitan Community College, Penn Valley.The Education Is Your Passport Scholarship Program has awarded a total of ninety-five scholarships to underserved, college bound high school seniors from 2015 to 2022, including 5 FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIPS to Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley.
A Way of Escape from Domestic Violence
The life-saving purpose of the A Way of Escape from Domestic Violence Initiative is to aide women and clients and residents of domestic violence shelters in the KC metro area with funding and resources to EQUIP, EMPOWER and provide “A Way of ESCAPE from Domestic Violence,”, leading them to live life to their fullest potential free of violence and abuse.

Feminine Hygiene Product Drives to End Period Poverty and promote Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention

LOVE Bags 4 Cancer Donation & Delivery Events

Education Is Your Passport Program (EIYP)

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8th Annual Education Is Your Passport Scholarship Program June 30, 2022

7th Annual Education Is Your Passport Scholarship Program July 29, 2021

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