By Yvonne J. Medley | LJWG Executive Director/Project Leader
Our Life Journeys Writing and Mentoring Project is funded by generous donations to our GlobalGiving Online Crowdfunding Campaigns, beginning with our inaugural Accelerator campaign (June 2020), our GivingTuesday campaign (December 2020), and the ongoing gifts of generous souls like you—even throughout the COVID-19 Global Pandemic (2020-2021)! You have empowered us to utilize the precious and effective tool of writing to engage all those who want and need to enhance their voice and validation and (especially during the pandemic) join in our monthly virtual workshops to relieve stress, isolation, and more. The funds received kept our presence on social media and maintained our website to continue and build our outreach in multiple U.S. states. We were able to supplement writers monetarily, hire an intern, maintain our valued workshop facilitators, who also mentored those who wished to creatively self-express themselves.
Our Writing and Mentoring workshop series, intended to help the visually impaired, branched out to help those with other disabilities, including mental illness. We have now expanded the Life Journeys Writing and Mentoring Project to include the hearing impaired of all ages—especially teens. The Project has enabled us to continue our literary stride with monthly workshops and support many writers! We were able to get one writer published, and we have three more in the lineup. We distributed valuable literary-incentive giveaways, and we plan to give another laptop to a writer who cannot afford one. The Project has also expanded to help those caught up in the penal system, working on recovery from drug abuse and putting their families back together via a Family in Recovery Court program. And … as the U.S. recovers from COVID-19, we are back behind bars using our Project to empower incarcerated individuals. This ongoing funding helps us to do that.
Kindly, I am hopeful that you will spread the good word on the wealth of writing, how we’re working hard to make a difference, and that even a modest monthly gift such as $10 (tax-deductible) can make all the difference in our outreach and work!
All in all, we are very grateful!!!!! Thank you.
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The Life Journeys Writers Club, Inc. (our DBA is Life Journeys Writers Guild) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization celebrating fourteen years, serving those passionate about the Literary Arts and making a difference in the world around us. The LJWG serves as an economic and empowerment bridge of access to the Literary Arts and its therapeutic benefits through Literary Therapy. www.lifejourneyswritersguild.org 240.427.LJWG (5594)
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DONORS, a copy of Life Journeys Writers Club’s current financial statement is available by writing LJWC, 1282 Smallwood Drive, W., Suite 107, Waldorf, MD 20603 or calling (240) 427-LJWG (5594). Documents and information submitted under the Maryland Solicitations Act are also available, for the cost of postage and copies, from the Maryland Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis MD 21401, (410) 974-5534.
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