Dennise Montalván – Founder, The Orphaned Earring
Source: The Orphaned Earring website and internet articles
Denisse was born in Costa Rica of Nicaraguan parents and immigrated as a child to California.
It was while she was struggling to graduate from college and to find a job, that Denisse made a promise to God, that if He helped her with those challenges, that she would find a way to serve Him.
In 2008, she received her degree in Public Relations and Publicity and was able to find a job despite the economic crisis taking place.
Denisse and her family, when visiting Nicaragua, would help at an orphanage there called Casa Hogar Osana.
In 2012, Denisse founded The Orphaned Earring. The Orphaned Earring is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization with the purpose of helping abandoned and neglected children in Latin America, while inspiring communities across the U.S. to join the social good movement.
Denisse started her organization because of the promise to God that she had made in 2008 while she was in college. Casa Hogar Osana was the first orphanage that she started sending money to from the sales earned by The Orphaned Earring.
The Orphaned Earring is a volunteer-based organization that recycles donated jewelry to make unique handmade bracelets as a way to raise money to buy food, clothes, school supplies, and to pay some medical needs for over 300 children and their surrounding communities.
They partner with local organizations and government appointed children’s centers and homes in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia and Dominican Republic.
To date, The Orphaned Earring has received jewelry donations from across the country that has provided the materials needed to make new jewelry to be sold. Thanks to the support of hundreds of people, over five thousand bracelets have been made and sold to help children thrive.
One-hundred percent of the proceeds benefit abandoned and neglected children in Latin America.
For more information on the organization or to purchase some of their products: http://www.theorphanedearring.com/
