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EMPOWER IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES
Co-founded by Caryn Kelly and Lilian Okech, Hope to Shine is a start-up organization seeking to empower immigrant and refugee women as leaders in their homes, workplaces, and communities.
We need your help to raise $5k to secure our AmeriCorps VISTA National Service Volunteer. This full-time member of our team with increase our positive impact on women's lives and build our capacity to co-create lasting solutions with the community we serve.
Donate today to show your support for grassroots community-building and to unlock our potential to enact social change!
JOIN OUR MISSION...
EMPOWER IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES
Co-founded by Caryn Kelly and Lilian Okech, Hope to Shine is a start-up organization seeking to empower immigrant and refugee women as leaders in their homes, workplaces, and communities.
We need your help to raise $5k to secure our AmeriCorps VISTA National Service Volunteer. This full-time member of our team with increase our positive impact on women's lives and build our capacity to co-create lasting solutions with the community we serve.
Donate today to show your support for grassroots community-building and to unlock our potential to enact social change!
ABOUT OUR FOUNDERS
Find out more information about the people with the vision to start Hope to Shine, Inc.
Caryn Kelly
Founder
Caryn Kelly has a background in conflict-resolution and peace-building in divided societies, including time learning at the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland, serving as a Reconciliation and Mission volunteer with the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Mexico, and leading delegations with the faith-based organization, BorderLinks, on the US/Mexico border.
Lilian Okech
Co-Founder
Lilian was born in Kitgum, Uganda in a refugee camp a few months after her family fled from South Sudan. Coming to America at the age of 15 Lilian “Lily” Okech, started high school in the United States speaking no English. She learned the alphabet while in the 9th grade and within months was on her way to speaking and writing English while identifying her passion and deep-routed need to help others.
