This year, for my birthday, I am asking for something else.
I am lucky enough to have everything I need, and very little I want.
So I am giving my birthday away, and raising funds for International Justice Mission — a charity close to my heart.
IJM works to protect people living in poverty from violence: trafficking, slavery, and the systems that allow both to continue. It is patient, unglamorous work, and it matters more than anything I could unwrap.
If you were thinking of flowers, or a bottle of something, please don’t. Send it to IJM instead — whatever you would have spent, or whatever feels right.
Their Hong Kong office is at ijmhk.org, and I would rather you looked than took my word for it.
“If you were thinking of flowers, please don’t. Send it to IJM instead.
Thank you. It would be the loveliest present I could ask for.
— Reyna Harilela
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