Catwalk for Charity

from Catwalk for Charity 6th Edition

by Angels for Humanity

**Special guest, actress, and model: CATHERINE SIACHOQUE**

HOSTED BY Emmy award winning anchor & 2019 honoree: CALVIN HUGHES

Sunday, September 22, 2019

12-4 PM

PROCEEDS to benefit Haiti’s children through health and education

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Judith Joseph, Angels for Humanity President & Founder

Dear friends,

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Angels for Humanity and the Catwalk For Charity committee I would like to thank you for your past support and invite you to join us once again this year and help us celebrate our 6th Catwalk For Charity event.

Twelve years ago, I invited a group of friends and colleagues to join me and launch Angels for Humanity (formerly known as Breakfast with Santa), an organization dedicated to raise awareness and support for the underprivileged in Haiti. After just a couple of years, I was happy and pleasantly surprised to see the positive response I received from the community. The charity has steadily grown and now our members reflect the rich cultural and ethnic diversity that make South Florida such an exciting place to be.

This year’s luncheon and fashion show will truly be a celebration on many levels. We are getting together to celebrate not only our “Angels” but also the many devoted volunteers who have given their time, talent, and expertise. These amazing individuals have made health and education a priority and believe it to be one of the most viable solutions to guarantee Haitian children a brighter and better tomorrow.

Every year, at Christmas time, a group of volunteers travel to Haiti to provide school supplies to thousands of excited and grateful children. And since the volunteers are full of the Christmas spirit, they also have one of the largest toy distributions in the country.

Last year, they made over 5,000 children happy. This year they hope to double that! This is what Catwalk for Charity is all about. Our goal is to provide hope, dignity and joy. We want to build a future for the children and fulfill as many of their needs as we can. But all of this could only be done with the substantial support and the sustained commitment of each and every one of us.

I am very proud of the support that I have received these past 12 years. We could not have started or persevered in this journey without the partnership of our supporters and our sponsors. Can we count on you, again this year, to join the mission of raising the expectations and self-esteem of these wonderful children and their families? More than ever before, we need your help! Graciously, on behalf of the Board of Directors of Angels for Humanity and the Catwalk for Charity committee, I thank you.

Judith P. Joseph Event Chair

We give “Thanks with a Grateful Heart” on this day dedicated to helping raise funds to support Haiti’s Children through education and health.

HELPING HAITI’S CHILDREN THROUGH EDUCATION & HEALTH

The most important guest for this year’s Catwalk for Charity is 10 year old Yves- Danie Guerrier!

Danie is a courageous young girl battling leukemia. Leukemia is a cancer of the Lymphoid line of blood cells characterized by the development of large numbers of immature lymphocytes.

She is currently being treated at L‘hospital Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs and she’s one of the beneficiaries of our annual Joy of Giving program in Haiti. By the grace of God, a visa has been obtained for her to travel to Miami and she will be with us to share her testimony. Her story is one of strength and courage.

For the past five years, we have partnered with FHACI, an amazing nonprofit organization based in Haiti, who helps children in their bat-tle with cancer. They are doing great work with very limited resources to fight childhood cancer in Haiti. Through FHACI, children who are receiving cancer treatment at the hospital benefit from our Joy of Giving gift distribution program in Haiti.

One of our honorees, Nathalie F. Belizaire, who is a cancer survivor, is a founding member of FHACI. Through Nathalie’s personal experience she has made an impact in the lives of these children. To make a donation and to support FHACI, please go directly to their website, FHACI.org. You will literally be saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of children.

HELPING HAITI’S CHILDREN THROUGH EDUCATION & HEALTH

It is known that Angels for Humanity is for me a “Labor of Love”. Because the children of Haiti are so dear to my heart, I continue to make endless sacrifices in order to make a difference in their lives. I sincerely believe that education is the only solution to eradicate extreme poverty and many can play a role. One does not need to deplete their finances to help and make an impact. The important thing is to remain focused and take action regardless of challenges. If we think about it, every educated person is not necessarily rich, but almost every educated person has a job and therefore a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. The problems we now face, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. “Witnessing the lack of education in remote parts of Haiti can make you feel sad and powerless, until you realize how little it would take to change these children’s lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.”

Why is Education So Important?

“Education is a basic human right and a significant factor in the development of children, communities, and countries”.

Opening classroom doors to all children, especially girls, will help break the intergenerational chains of poverty because education is intrinsically linked to all development goals such as supporting gender empowerment, improving child health and maternal health, reducing hunger, fighting the spread of diseases, spurring economic growth, and building peace.On this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, let us recognize that extreme poverty and uneducated children anywhere are threats to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty and lack of education are human rights denials. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical progress, we have the power to security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty and lack of education are human rights denials. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical progress, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

ACT LOCALLY, IMPACT GLOBALLY

Education is a basic Human right and a significant factor in the development of children, communities and countries.

HELPING HAITI’S CHILDREN THROUGH EDUCATION & HEALTH

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