Project TIES. Hosted by Roberts Wesleyan
Phi Alpha students and Successful Pathways of YFC, the collaboration provides a
business venture opportunity for young women to design, create, and sell
fashion accessories. Using donated men’s neck ties, the young women will
transform them into beautiful accessories. In the process, creating educational
opportunities for young impoverished women of the Rochester area. The end goal
of Project TIES is to become a micro-enterprise, an innovative
solution to help young women gain greater access to education as well as learn
valuable job life skills.
We at Successful Pathways make it a priority to change our
services depending on the desires of the participants and the funding
possibilities. Knowing this, Project TIES will look different at various times
throughout the year and will have diverse needs as it changes.
Currently, we are in the beginning processes of brainstorming
programming, recruiting volunteers, and collecting men’s neck ties. We have the
possibility of a great way to begin the project this summer (July 7-August 15) with 20 students
but are also looking to plan for the upcoming fall, specifically for in school
teenage mothers. If this sounds like a project you would like to be a part of,
please contact Kerri (Kerri.Phillips@yfcrochester.org)
to help out!
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