We are so excited to announce the start of our own philanthropic project called Worth a Thousand Words. We provide free photo sessions and prints to Kansas City moms and kids who have escaped abusive homes, completed a program at a local domestic abuse center (Rose Brooks Center) and are now out on their own, starting their new lives.
These sessions celebrate new life and triumph over adversity and abuse. Please become involved by dropping us a quick email (ruthwheat@hotmail.com) to learn how you or your company can easily become involved in a great, grassroots project. It is a wonderful project for companies to offer for employees who are always looking for simple, low-effort, low-cost philanthropic projects to support.
To watch a short slideshow of our first session with a brave mom and son, Click here.
Contact us and get involved! Get a group together if you don’t want to do it at your company- a mom’s group, a book club, a neighborhood group, your email list, or any group you are a part of can get behind this project!
Why do we need to donate money if you are offering the photos to the women for free?
Hi, and thanks for a great question!
The funds that come in will cover the costs of many things like shirts for the families to wear in their sessions, all the professional photo prints they’ll get, the custom framing expenses, and the albums and CD’s they receive… as well as the designing and printing of marketing materials to let people know about the program and to promote it.
The program IS totally free for the families – unfortunately it’s not free for us to provide all those items to them! As a full-time, for-profit studio, I could do a free session here and there without raising any funds (which I do for many causes), but I could not do them over and over again every month without any funds to support it.
It was my goal to have LOTS of families get the free sessions and have it go on forever. So that gave birth to the idea of a viral, grassroots email campaign where each person who heard about it could give a little bit to support the project – and many more families could have these sessions.
I hope this answers your question!
–Jenny
Thank you so much Jenny for helping these women and children see the light that is inside them, so many of the women lose this light. Light that is extinguished by violence and ignorance. You are letting each family that is captured find that little light that is lost. It is sometimes hard for others to understand the circle of abuse that must be overcomed before becoming free to live a day to day life, that is taken for granted at times. If anyone has doubts, daily/weekly changes in these women are seen when they break the chain of violence. What a wonderful idea of wheatphoto to give this women a spark for that light to be seen again! I look foward to attending your event and inviting everyone that I know.