Celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart is planning to empower those in need by providing them with a steady income and good education, as well as help put a stop to human trafficking.
Cowart is planning to accomplish all of these things through The Purpose Hotel, which is a global hotel chain that is "unlike anything the world has ever seen." It will first rise in Nashville, Tennessee, where Cowart lives with his family.
Cowart explains that everything related to the hotel is going to improve the lives of those in need. Every guest who checks into the hotel will automatically sponsor a child's education with each room they take. The photo and personal details of the child they will be sponsoring will be displayed in each room.
The artworks to be displayed in each room will be made by humanitarian artists, while the furnitures will be built by the homeless and needy. Internet usage will come free, but those who want to upgrade to faster connection will be helping donate to anti-human trafficking causes. The blankets they will use will be sewn by survivors of human trafficking as well.
Even the coffee they plan to serve at the hotel will be ethically sourced, and they will show nothing but socially inspiring content on television. The soaps and shampoos in every bathroom will be handmade by women survivors of addiction, violence, and extreme poverty, and each hotel lobby will hold a Charity Water well.
"I'm asking you to help me build it because humanity desperately needs it," says Cowart. Through the hotel, the Christian photographer hopes that people in need can "reclaim their dignity and earn a living, from the mini bar to the handsewn comforter, the soaps, even down to the furniture to the store in the lobby."
"We are making this hotel to be life-giving to the people who need it most," he explains.
Cowart is going to launch a Kickstarter campaign on July 12 to allow people from all over the world to come together for this life-changing effort.
