Beauty Gap

How they started:

Amber Koonce was a college student who traveled to Ghana to work in a detention center and to help teach at a local school. When she was over there she had realized that none of the girls had any play dolls that looked anything like them. They were always white, or perfect, there was nothing they could have that looked anything like them. Amber did not agree with this. The dolls, who had bleach blonde hair and sparkling whit, perfect teeth, made these young women have a desire to not want to be themselves and look the way they do. They wanted to look more "Western" as they called it. The girls there started to attempt to manipulate themselves and their hair and skin. It became almost unhealthy. 

Amber has started "Beauty Gap" ever since which donates dolls of color and true life features to these girls so that they can realize they can be themselves, and still be perfect the way that they are. She calls them self-affirming dolls, and they seem to really be helping. 

How we can help:

By checking out www.beautygap.org and reading more about how her story has impacted girls in other countries. You can also help donate on their site and help them donate more and more dolls to orphanages in Ghana,Haiti, Kenya, and the Philippines.