Recently, we had chance to catch up with close friend, Dianna Bautista with Shear Love International for an episode on The Mike Thakur Show.

Dianna’s a rock star who’s committed her life to rescuing and helping people trapped in human trafficking and the sex slave industry. Through our in-house, nonprofit partner the Gabriel Project, we’ve supported Dianna for years. They don’t just help and rescue, but they teach, educate and retrain the people they help with new, meaningful skills that translate to earning a living wage so these folks never return back to the lives they came from.

Although it’s great to think about giving all through the year, it’s especially encouraging that there is one special day, right around the Thanksgiving holiday, where everybody chooses to think just a little bit harder, and a little bit more intentionally, about the value of being generous, being thankful, and being able to give to help others…

When we built WorkLodge, we built it in tandem with FT5K, a nonprofit focused on helping those who can’t help themselves in self-sustaining ways whenever possible. Our work is primarily local (in 2019 we donated over $1,000,000 of fresh food and produce to families in the Houston area for example) however we also aim for one larger scale project overseas each year.

For 2020, we wanted to connect our Members even more to the mission and really bring clarity to our tag line, “Workspace. Changing Lives.” and so we’re excited to explain one of the ways we’ve approached that for 2020.

If you’ve been around WorkLodge recently, you’ve no doubt heard about Gabriel Week. It’s the culmination of our core mission.

“Changing Lives.” It may sound like a vague directive driven by positivity, but at WorkLodge, it is our DNA. It is our heart as a business to truly change the lives of others wherever possible. Sometimes it’s through large initiatives, but most of the time it’s through daily interactions we have with our Members, Partners, and Friends.

WorkLodge and FT5K are proud to announce the opening of our second children’s home in India on December 22, 2017. We’ve now helped 100 children off the streets and onto a path of success, in one year! And you’re a part of what made that possible by working here.

Tucked away in a northwest village of India, there now stands a new building that is home to 50 orphans in need of so many of the amenities we take for granted every day. Each child now has somewhere to lay their head at night, nutritional meals every day, full-time house parents, a consistent education, and this time around, a church right next door.

Today we officially ‘got results’ for a second time this year as we confirmed, in partnership with the Gabriel Foundation (our non-profit) that our SECOND orphanage for 50 children will officially open in December!