I started the Obakki Foundation because of the two-year-old orphan girl I met living on the streets in Romania, because of the baby that died of malaria one night when I was in Cameroon, because of a homeless Vancouver man that bought me a Christmas present.
I started the Obakki Foundation because of the little boy who held my daughter’s hand in Mexico City as he was dying, because of my seven hour walk with six village women to get water for their children, because of George, who died because his disabilities didn’t qualify him for a heart transplant.
I started the Obakki Foundation so that people like you and I can come together and through small actions create big results.
The Obakki Foundation is a place for compassionate people to share thoughts and ideas that can help make a difference—in distant corners of the world or their own backyard.
The Obakki Foundation offers people hope, empowerment and a chance to learn and grow. It’s about giving people the opportunity to be creative—using thoughts, ideas, art and fashion to stand up and participate in improving the lives of those who need it most.
I started the Obakki Foundation because I don’t want to wait a single moment longer before starting to improve the world. I hope you will join me in this adventure. Please check in often and let us know what you are thinking and how you would like to participate.
~ Treana Peake
Hi!
Reading about why you started this organization, especially where you mentioned your daughter holding a dying boy’s hand, the women traveling 7 hours ot get water for their children and the homeless man who bought you a present, all these acts of compassion are both, what makes us human and what reminds us in the midst of day to day life, that we all ARE human.
The compassion and altruism that you and the other volunteers of this organization bestow onto the otherwise forgotten people of this world is a great inspiration to me. I am a student at WSU, studying social sciences, and also a single mom of three little ones and I hope that one day with my education and life experience, I too will be able to help others as you all have.
If nothing else, to show my own children that everyone deserves love, and compassion no matter who they are.
Thank you for being a wonderful inspiration!