PARTNERS & PROGRAMS
Puresa Humanitarian
Since OLLI’s inception in 2012, Our Battle Cry has been to alleviate the suffering of victims and survivors of Human Trafficking. We have partnered with Puresa Humanitarian a 501c3 , founded by Giselle Meza, who is a trafficking survivor.
Puresa Humanitarian’s mission is to save lives, reach, rescue and restore the lives of women and children from the horrors of sexual slavery, and giving them hope for a bright future. Puresa Humanitarian offers a way out of slavery by reaching at risk, poverty stricken children and families in remote villages and providing them with prevention programs on the immediate dangers, behaviors and tactics used by traffickers.
Puresa rescues children from the living nightmare that is forced prostitution, offering a safe clean home in a loving atmosphere with complete aftercare, food, medical care, education, clothing, counseling, spiritual counseling and 24-hour care.
Puresa also provides women with jobs skills training and jobs, so that can earn an income and be self-sustainable. The proceeds from past OLLI events have contributed to the building of the
“Puresa Life Skills Center” as well as the support and maintenance of the ongoing projects there..
Read more about the results produced in India with the donations to One Love Long Island provided here.
Since OLLI’s inception in 2012, Our Battle Cry has been to alleviate the suffering of victims and survivors of Human Trafficking. We have partnered with Puresa Humanitarian a 501c3 , founded by Giselle Meza, who is a trafficking survivor.
Puresa Humanitarian’s mission is to save lives, reach, rescue and restore the lives of women and children from the horrors of sexual slavery, and giving them hope for a bright future. Puresa Humanitarian offers a way out of slavery by reaching at risk, poverty stricken children and families in remote villages and providing them with prevention programs on the immediate dangers, behaviors and tactics used by traffickers.
Puresa rescues children from the living nightmare that is forced prostitution, offering a safe clean home in a loving atmosphere with complete aftercare, food, medical care, education, clothing, counseling, spiritual counseling and 24-hour care.
Puresa also provides women with jobs skills training and jobs, so that can earn an income and be self-sustainable. The proceeds from past OLLI events have contributed to the building of the
“Puresa Life Skills Center” as well as the support and maintenance of the ongoing projects there..
Read more about the results produced in India with the donations to One Love Long Island provided here.
Giselle Meza Products, founded with a passion to empower and create freedom for women worldwide.
Giselle Meza Products create and sell fashionable unque global style from India,
celebrating traditional vibrant colors, materials, craftsmanship culture, and history. Theses products help to empower women in need around the world by providing skills training, employment, and opportunity for impoverished, destitute, marginalized, enslaved, and exploited women, helping them to have a future, become independent, and achieve freedom and dignity by becoming self-sustainable, she then has the power to change her own world.
Giselle Meza Products: Providing Freedom and Empowering Women with Every Purchase.
United We Om
One Love Long Island is also partnering with United We Om (UWO).
Founded by dynamo husband and wife team Matt and Jenny Jared.
United We Om is a yoga and meditation non-profit providing practice to trauma-impacted and under-resourced communities. In the past three years, United We Om has shared practice with more than 8500 practitioners from a wide-variety of communities including Veterans, Survivors of Domestic Violence, Foster Children, Special Needs, Addiction Recovery, Low-Income, Cancer Survivors and many more.
United We Om hires yoga and mindfulness teachers who feel called to share practice with specific communities because of their own life experience. United We Om provides their classes on-site at the organizations they serve and there is never any cost to the practitioners or the organizations.
United We Om provides on-going trainings to yoga teachers, offered by-donation with
no minimum donation, to ensure the tools of sharing practice effectively are available
to all yoga teachers who desire to be of service.
United We Om is incredibly grateful to One Love Long Island for their support and commitment
to making the invaluable practices of yoga and meditation available to the Recovery community of
Long Island. It is an honor to be of service together.
OWM has shared their practice with more than 8500 individuals from more than 50 different communities.
The collaboration between OLLI and UWO have created
“Yoga and Meditation for Recovery One Love Long Island”
at the South Oaks/Northwell Hospital in Amityville.
Here is the impact OLLI will have:
In-Patient Detox Program COED - 2 classes a week, 10 - 20 participants per week
In-Patient Rehab Program WOMEN - 2 classes a week, 20 participants per week
In-Patient Rehab Program MEN - 2 classes a week, 20 participants per week
Anticipated Impact - 120 students reached per week!!!
Off The Mat, Into the World – to support their continued work using yoga programming to inspire conscious sustainable activism and ignite grassroots social change. OTM’s mission is to use the power of yoga to inspire conscious, sustainable activism and ignite grassroots social change. They do this by facilitating personal empowerment through leadership trainings, fostering community collaboration, and initiating local and global service projects.We at OLLI have witnessed first hand the magic and creativity that has come out of the OTM programs, which has truly enabled us to step off of our mats and into the world to make it a better place. We humbly give our utmost gratitude to OTM for empowering us to do so. Without their programming, leadership and guidance, it would not have been possible. A portion of this Years OLLI event will go back to OTM so that they can continue to provide scholarship opportunities for those who could not otherwise afford the attend the leadership programs.