Featured STANDer: Daphne Keys
This week, we’re thrilled to highlight Daphne Keys as our Featured STANDer! In our first email interaction, she shared beautiful words that I shared with our team, but I wanted to share with everyone broadly. Here’s what she had to say: In life and on social media, it is often difficult to find people interested in impacting lives for the better. STAND brings us together on one platform.
Wow! That is exactly what we want to do: bring people together to connect and interact and STAND for what they care about, together in a community. Hope you enjoy learning more about Daphne today!
- Who are you (in 140 characters or less): I’m a woman, wife, mother, foster mother, incredible aunt, friend and world-changer.
2. What causes are you most passionate about? Why? So many causes can grab a heart, but when I see a child sick or dying from malnutrition, hunger or preventable disease, my heart is drawn to find a solution. No parent should suffer the death of their child, but certainly, we have the resources to end it in the most impoverished communities. Africa, Asia and the Middle East have the largest number of rural communities lacking the education or resources to end their extreme poverty. Empowering these communities to end poverty themselves by equipping and educating leaders in the community, will impact generations to come.
3. What do you enjoy the most out of the STAND platform? Connecting with like minded people. The social platform provides a means to meet, collaborate, encourage and simply learn about how others are STANDing.
World-changers need other world-changers!
4. What’s your favorite STAND you’ve created or supported? Why? Global Hope Network International (GHNI) works to end extreme poverty in areas often hidden and suffering the most. GHNI workers partner with villagers who desire to work, learn and end their own extreme poverty. This is heartwarming. Respecting, offering dignity and then equipping those most in need builds people up rather than pushing them down. It’s like the old saying, “Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime….” Not only is this true with GHNI workers, but the community as a whole becomes self-sustaining within 5 years. Amazing stuff!
5. Who inspires you on STAND — and why? Truthfully, I’m inspired by the STAND founders and the STAND team who followed an amazing vision in a world so often filled with self focus. It took a lot of grit, teamwork and time to make this happen. I’m impressed and grateful to be a participant on the platform.
6. Why is it important to you to put your compassion into action? To simply walk through life, thinking only of my comfort, needs and wants, is empty. I’ve done it on occasion, and will probably fall into it again for a short time someday.
Without doing something to make a change in the life of those who suffer greatly, I’m not happy or fulfilled.
Thank you Daphne for sharing! STAND with Daphne on the app HERE.
Andi Teggart || Director of Community at STAND || @luckyandi || STAND is live in the App Store! Download STAND here.