Dolls for Change
Kimberly Becker and Hilary Gaul collaborate to bring Dolls for Change to the Anthropologie platform.
Kimberly Becker and Hilary Gaul were suitemates their freshman year at RISD in 1990 and have remained friends. Hilary is the Executive Director of Home at Anthropologie and the two have collaborated to bring Kimberly's Dolls for Change to the Anthropologie platform.
Kimberly makes the Dolls for Change from recycled clothing and sells them to support an organization called Droty Uganda. Each time she raises 11,000 a girls bathroom unit is built in a rural schoolyard in Uganda. The young women have no privacy and so when they begin menstruating they drop out of school. This simple act of constructing a bathroom encourages hundreds of girls to both stay in school and also to move to the community where the bathrooms have been built to be educated with respect. They are working, one girl at a time, to lift women up across the globe.
You can find the dolls at Dolls for Change or at Anthropologie.
[Header image credit: Sarah LoCascio]
