Join Sweet for a weekend in Vegas, a cruise in the Hawaiian Islands, a rafting trip down the Salmon River or a fab inclusive resort on Cozumel. Details inside.
Sweet visits St. Lazarus
Mar 9In the heart of Nairobi’s second largest slum, St. Lazarus School rises from the rubbish strewn streets. We begin our steep and bumpy ascent into Kibera. It’s rush hour and people by the hundreds stream toward downtown Nairobi on foot. Vendors along the road set out their wares, mostly fried bean cakes and vegetables, to sell to the commuters.
MODERN MEETS MALNOURISHED
A woman and child sleeping alongside the road wake and begin to stir. Behind them an advertisement asks, “How are your stocks doing?” It’s the contrast that strikes you, the juxtaposition of Wall Street, the Ying-Yang Twins, cell phone companies, churches, mortuaries and malnourishment. The air is muggy and thick. Heavy clouds loom with the promise of much-needed rain. As we crest the hill, you can see the vastness of the slum. It’s overwhelming. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Shannon Wentworth, Sweet Kenya Safari, Sweet Somethings
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Meet our singles guru
Mar 2
Matchmaker, Matchmaker,
Make me a match,
Find me a find,
catch me a catch
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Look through your book,
And make me a perfect match.
— Fiddler on the Roof
Whoo hoo. Single ladies rejoice! Lesbian matchmaker extraordinaire Dr. Frankie Bashan joins Sweet for our Cozumel Palace Resort and our Vegas Sweet Vegas Weekend as our singles guru.
Whether you’re looking for a date or want to make new friends, Frankie has an amazing program in store for you. Think singles mixers, game nights, excursions, meals, happy hours, karaoke, speed dating, personalized matchmaking and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cozumel palace resort, solo, Sweet singles, vegas sweet vegas
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Live Sweet Voluntour 2010
Feb 3
Like Chicken Little, since the late-80s I’ve been running around telling people, “The sky is falling.” When I saw “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006, it was a profound visualization of that very thing. Watching polar bears drown, I felt powerless. The problem was so big. What could one little chicken do? It was overwhelming.
I hate feeling powerless. It pisses me off. If we’re going to solve these huge global problems, we need to feel empowered, inspired and energized. That’s how Sweet co-founder Jen Rainin and I struck upon the idea for Sweet. We asked ourselves: How can we make solving these problems fun? How can we get more people involved? Voila! Let’s travel the world and do simple community service projects where we can see a difference in a few hours. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Live Sweet Voluntour 2010, Shannon Wentworth, Sweet Somethings, voluntourism
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Vegas Sweet Vegas
Jan 16overview | schedule / options | pricing
Watch out, Vegas. Sweet is coming!
Join Sweet in Sin City for a Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31, 2010, you’ll never forget. We’ll dance at the legendary CandyBar, enjoy a pool party with a waterslide through a shark tank, meet all the Sweeties at our speed networking welcome reception, give lady luck a whirl in the casinos and otherwise enjoy the delights of the other city that never sleeps. Oh, yeah, and we’ll do some good, working with the lovely people at The Shade Tree, a shelter for abused women, their children and pets.
Enjoy your choice of two or three nights with Sweet. Space is limited. Call Flavia at 877.793.3830 to hold yours today.
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Haiti needs our help
Jan 15
On Tuesday, a 7.1 earthquake left Haiti devastated, particularly the capital of Port-au-Prince. The quake left collapsed buildings, the dead stacked on city streets, thousands of homeless and people digging through the rubble with their barehands in search of loved ones. While there is no official death toll, it’s expected to be in the hundreds of thousands.
Our friends at Rainbow World Fund have been supporting ongoing projects in Haiti since 2004 by improving nutrition and working to make drinking water safe. Read the rest of this entry »
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Show us your tats!
Jan 10
What’s better than shameless self promotion? Getting paid $1,000 to do it. Sweet media partner GO! Magazine is having a tattoo contest. They’re searching for lesbians with the best body art.
All you have to do is email or text a picture of your ink to bodyart@gomag.com. The winners will be photographed and featured in GO! Magazine’s anniversary issue. The grand prize winner will walk away with a cool grand.
You already did the hard part, getting inked. The rest only takes a minute. The entry deadline is March 15. Tell your friends with cool tats, too.
For more details, click here.
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More Sweet coverage in Belize
Jan 8
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Another fab TV news segment about Sweet’s work at the children’s hospital ward in Belize City, Belize, during our Sweet Caribbean Cruise, the largest CarbonFree™ cruise ever. Whoo hoo! We got them to say “lesbian” on Belize TV.
Tags: Jen Rainin, Shannon Wentworth, Sweet Caribbean Cruise, video
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Giving back is Sweet
Dec 27
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Starting with our wetlands restoration project in New Orleans, Sweeties gave back in every port.
New Orleans: Sweeties planted 600 new grasses in a marsh devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Costa Maya, Mexico: 150 Sweeties pulled over 200 giant bags of garbage from Uvero Beach in a 45-minute contest. We pulled a sink, a television, vacuum cleaner parts and tons of other oddities one should never see in the ocean. We found trash from Greece, China and many parts in between. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Jen Rainin, Shannon Wentworth, Sweet Caribbean Cruise, video, voluntourism
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Sweet Hawaiian Islands Cruise
Dec 26overview | ports | ship | pricing
Are you ready for a summer escape to the Hawaiian Islands? We’re taking a large group of Sweeties on board the gorgeous Pride of America. Together, we’ll explore the Hawaiian Islands, do some good, catch some rays and otherwise indulge ourselves in this diverse wonderland. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sweeten your photos
Dec 25
Choose the graphic you want to add to your photo, then follow the instructions in the pop-up window to Sweeten and save as many photos as your heart desires.
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