Year long global giving adventure performing 34 acts of service in Tracy Stayton's 34tunate year of Thirty-wonderful. Thirty-too-good-to-be-true. For a year.
Then, Thirty-free. Free to make changes. Free to pick up and go. Free to uncover what makes others contented and happy. Because, despite my wonderful life, I sometimes found I was not. For quite awhile I had been pondering my place in life. I was a thirty three year old single female, with a stable government job, living in the bubble of suburban Orange County in a pleasant condo I managed to purc
18/05/2018
The world is to have organizations like 5 Gyres researching, educating, and enacting change about the over use of single use plastics and their negative effects on the planet. We were 4tunate to take a ocean/harbor cruise with them and used this Manta to skim the water and analyze the plastics we found while educating local high schoolers on board about this global issue and plastic alternatives! Check out more at www.5gyres.com
22/04/2018
It’s 🌏 Earth Day 🌏!!! to have Buffalo Exchange support 5 Gyres raising funds and awareness for plastic reduction and research with their amazing $1 sale! Now, put down great straw and go do a beach cleanup or something! Celebrate this amazing planet!!!
13/03/2018
to be working with Renegade Racing producing the The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust The Enormous Elephant Run raising funds to protect endangered elephants and black rhinos! Thanks to Kristin Davis and Maria Menounos for supporting this amazing organization, spreading the word and their passion, and sharing their umbrella for this quick snapshot!
I encourage all of you to check out the works this organization is doing and learn more about how you can get involved and by adopting an elephant, volunteering, participating in a upcoming event...
06/02/2018
A shave and a haircut...with Morgan Freeman...who himself came close to homelessness!
Can a Haircut Change Your Life? | The Story of Us Joshua Coombes is a London hairdresser who believes small acts of kindness can make a big impact. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ THE STORY OF U...
18/01/2018
to October 2017 when we time spent in Namibia at Penduka, a women’s development project aimed at empowering women to take charge of their lives.
The Penduka ethos is about making women recognise their potential, their talents, the possibilities open to them and how they can turn these towards earning a livelihood. Rural women from all over Namibia are helped to create their own jobs by becoming aware of, and building on, the skills and resources they already have.
To date, over 500 women, working in 16 different groups throughout Namibia, have been trained in different needlework skills and are paid a fair rate for the items they produce. Priority is given to indigent women, including those who are disabled or victims of spousal abuse, poverty and other dire circumstances, such as the prevailing HIV/AIDS pandemic and TB. Mary Marek Johnson
15/01/2018
Check out the new website! http://www.4tunate.org/34tunate/
There is a short video recapping the journey as well as a timeline that shows some of the projects worked on, where they were and the works done.
34tunate - 4tunate Just another WordPress site
13/01/2018
Founder Tracy Stayton was recently honored by Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary with the Paul Harris Fellow Award. This award is giving "in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world."
12/01/2018
to have spent time in Rosarito, Mexico with Oral Hygiene Initiative and Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary working in conjunction with local Rotarians there, the Boys and Girls Club, a local school and orphanages to deliver dental care, share information on prevention, and learn how we can continue to partner with their community!
Check out this beautiful video about the Kayan people living on the border of Thailand/Myanmar. Known more commonly as "Long-neck people," this video helps us understand more about their culture and how you can support them. ,
Tracy Stayton was 4tunate enough to visit this village while volunteering with Ways of Change on her year of global giving.
23/10/2017
Honored to have the story live on through the talented pen of Ms. Caroline Leedom and the Newport Beach Independent Newspaper "Indy"
Local Focus: Tracy Stayton is a 4Tunate Woman - Newport Local News By Caroline Leedom | NB Indy How do you counter the negative undertone of getting older? Simple: rebrand the experience. That is what local resident Tracy Stayton has done since entering her 30s. At 31, she minted the age as “thirty-wonderful.” At 32, she was, “thirty-too-good-to-be-true.” At 33, sh...
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