Page 10 - HOH

A13
Saturday 21 July 2018

Switch of Mentality

gether with all local foun- Reza Fakhari; the man who are currently working on a
dations and organizations inspired her to become a project about human traf-
working for the wellbeing driving force for good in this ficking.
of children, the youth and world.
families. Switch Foundation The name was inspired by Promesa Falso
points out that in order to fix the foundation’s mission “Promesa falso” meaning
any problem we will always statement which is to gen- False Promise is the name
have to go back to the tly help people ‘switch’ of their new project. It’s a
roots: The Family! their point of view. Com- reenactment of a true story
bining education and en- in which a lover boy tries
The Founder tertainment, Paula hopes to conquer the girl, make
Mrs. Paula Nahr is the found- to expose some problems her fall in love and gives
er of Switch Foundation. that plague our society in her false hope. He uses her
Paula hasn’t always had hopes of raising awareness psychologically and starts
a burning desire to be a that could eventually lead exploiting her sexually. Hu-
social entrepreneur. When to a happier and healthier man Trafficking is some-
she was a small child living community. thing happening all over
in Colombia, she watched the world and unfortunate-
with wide eyes some of the Projects ly it’s happening on the is-
struggles her mother suf- All their videos can be land too. Human trafficking
fered through, because found on their website and is split into three parts. Sex-
she hadn’t been able to their Facebook page and ual exploitation, labor ex-
ORANJESTAD — Switch community and stimulate get a proper education. are accessible to all public. ploitation and organ traf-
Foundation is a multimedia a sense of tolerance, com- Her mother imparted a vital Topics that Switch Founda- ficking. This project is mainly
foundation which helps to passion and understand- lesson to her daughter: ed- tion have worked on and focused on the sexual and
promote the activities and ing for the issues affecting ucation equals power. That posted on social media labor part. Production is al-
results of our foundations both our society and in re- quest for education took are bullying, drug addicts, most finished. So be pend-
and organizations working turn our economy. ‘ Switch’ Paula all the way to New domestic violence, juve- ing for the launch of this
for the well-being and the is the tool to work for to- York City where she met nile pregnancy and they marvelous project.q
development of our com-
munity. Switch Foundation
informs, educates, and
raises awareness through
our media communication
tools.

Their main aim is to gener-
ate a “switch” of mentality
in their audience and the
community where preju-
dice is eliminated and tol-
erance is stimulated. It is
human nature to incline to-
wards prejudice because
of lack of education and
information.

Switch Foundation started
as a TV program in April
2011 called “Switch” based
on research in a documen-
tary format bringing forth
local family issues in Papia-
mento - problematic, the
cause, the consequences
and ways of prevention-
exposing experts in the
field with real statistics and
testimonials. Switch brings
forth the information in a
dynamic, real and visually
attractive style which at-
tracts both the youth and
adults. Their main focus is
to open up the eyes of our