Jenesse Center, Inc. is proud to announce the “What A Little Love Can Do Project” as one of its distinguished 2011 Silver Rose Award recipients.
Celebrating more than 30 years of continued service in the community, Jenesse will honor the project at the annual Silver Rose Gala and Auction on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at the Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows.
Launched almost a year ago, the “What A Little Love Can Do Project,” headed up by Halle Berry and a team of top designers, was initiated to enhance the living and educational facilities for women, children and men needing to escape the dangers of domestic violence. The project launched with the design of Nahla’s World, a children’s center that is a place of healing and learning.
Halle Berry, the founder of the project said, “My belief is that by providing a safe, warm and beautiful space that is free of the horrors of the past, battered women whose spirits have been broken can begin to heal, hope, dream and start again. We have completed a space where children can go to get new clothing, have parties, play dates, play games, read, do art projects and have therapy. By engaging the children this way, it lays the foundation for healthy mental development and a belief that they are worthy far beyond their circumstance.”
Following its completion, three of the talented designers, Patrick Delanty, David Brian Sanders and Lindsay Jackson, were asked by Ms. Berry to return and help transform each Jenesse apartment into a work of art that would help families heal, grow and thrive.
2011 Silver Rose Gala Chair Pat Greene said, “What is so special about the “What A Little Love Can Do Project” is that it really grew out of Jenesse’s philosophy that when women feel valued, they feel self-empowered and when they feel self-empowered, they know they can leave their past behind them and conquer the world.”
Embracing these principles, the What A Little Love Can Do Design Team has worked hard to create apartments that speak to who the women are and who they are becoming, both inside and out. Every attention to detail is paid to the apartments named after iconic and inspirational women such as Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Josephine Baker, among others.
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