Humanitarianism.

Girl Pride International focuses on serving socioeconomically disadvantaged, migrant, and refugee girls' intellectual, material, and emotional needs through access to resources like education, academic scholarships, mentoring and counseling, ambassadorships, workshops, and other forms of empowerment.

Through working with girls from diverse backgrounds, such as migrant children from Central America, Syrian refugee children in Jordan, and indigenous Kenyan students living in the Samburu region, and connecting them with resources and other girls around the globe, we foster intercultural dialogue and build bridges across borders, empowering Today’s Girls to be Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Long Island Laboring Against COVID-19, or LILAC, is an award-winning student-run charitable organization committed to providing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and moral support to all those affected by the pandemic. LILAC's mission is to serve the underserved and underprivileged populations in communities that have been severely impacted by COVID-19. LILAC is the COVID-19 relief branch of its parent organization, Girl Pride International.

What began with critical support for medical professionals and first responders who are fighting for us, evolved into direct outreach to high-risk communities such as seniors, veterans, the homeless and disabled, schools, and with special attention being given to the disproportionately affected BIPOC communities locally and beyond. LILAC is also committed to combatting racism and hate, and has been invited to speak in Anti-Hate roundtables hosted by state and local officials

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The Stone Soup Refugee Project is for creative young people forced from their homes by traumatic circumstances. The work that appears here has been submitted by young people, up to twenty years of age, living as refugees in many parts of the world. As a longtime student writer for Stone Soup, it was my initiative in making contact with a filmmaker working in the Za’atari Camp in Jordan that set Stone Soup on their journey to create this project. Responding to a call for volunteer work, I reached out to various artists, eventually connecting with Syrian refugees through a nonprofit called Another Kind of Girl Collective.

This project is, first, and foremost, for you, young people up to age twenty. It is the place where you can publish your creative work in a forum accessible to your friends and family, and for people living around the world.