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Ambitious 12 year old raises well over $3000 in support of mothers2mothers. Always the proactive, Isabel Calo started selling the m2m Mothers’ Creations beadwork at her school, and has been selling for the past two years. Isabel's efforts even attracted the attention of the Observer Tribune. Click here to read the full published article.
Dare to dream are the words that come to mind when one talks to Isabel Calo, just 12 years of age. This ambitious New Jersey Middle School girl, living with her parents in the United States, has big plans… to get mothers2mothers (m2m) “programs known in (her) county, state, and eventually throughout the United States.”
Through her mother’s colleague Rani Price, a Senior Manager in the Finance Division at Pfizer Inc, Isabel heard about mothers2mothers. During a Township Tour with her parents on their visit to Cape Town, South Africa in 2004, Isabel “saw the extreme poverty in which these women and babies live,” and she wanted to extend a helping hand.
Always the proactive, Isabel started selling the m2m Mothers’ Creations beadwork at her school, and has been selling for the past two years. She began on her own, but through networking has managed to involve her friends, and recruited a girl at the local Catholic school, “to continue selling (there) every year at Christmas time.”
Isabel has already raised $3061 through sales at her school, youth tournaments, jewellery parties and art galleries.
Isabel continues to market and sell Mothers’ Creations items, and she intrepidly keeps promoting m2m. Isabel has recently been interviewed by the local newspaper on her work with mothers2mothers.
And what does she hope the future holds for mothers2mothers? “I hope the m2m program helps to stop the spread of AIDS, and keep (the) babies healthy,” she says. |
