LOULOU Beauty Editor Joanna Campbell, volunteering at St Jude Children's Home in Gulu, Uganda. Photo by Éléonore Gauthier.

LOULOU Beauty Editor, Joanna Campbell, volunteering at the St Jude Children's Home in Gulu, Uganda. Photo by Éléonore Gauthier.

This past summer I took a sabbatical from my job as a Beauty Editor and travelled to Northern Uganda, where I volunteered at an orphanage for a two months. It was, hands down, the best thing I’ve ever done. Now that I’m home, I’m happy to keep busy doing my LOULOU job and doing humanitarian work.

I recently joined a Montreal-based non-profit organization, The Mercy Project, that does fundraising for health-care initiatives for children, in areas where access is limited. A few days ago the Montreal Gazette featured our organization, and I wanted to pass it along.