Continue reading »]]>

LAUREN’S WELCOME

I want to personally welcome you to Freedom Village, a wonderful expansion of the American Dream. I am a part of a team that you can join to give people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as Asperger’s and Down Syndrome, a chance to live independently in a safe connected community.
Freedom Village will have “state of the art” affordable condominium units we can own or rent and ….best of all, a social life with friends and fun things to do that goes way beyond the “9 to 5” world that so many of us are limited to now

There isn’t anything like Project Free today; if there were my Aunt Kim would have found it for me. Project Free is raising the bar and taking the lead in providing “Opportunity”. Opportunity for us to own our own condominium at half price because all the units will be identified as workforce housing by HUD. Opportunity to apply for financial aid because as a private “Trade School” we will qualify for tuition as well as receive a marketable certification, along with experiencing dorm living !! And ‘Opportunity” to choose employment and not be placed in meaningless jobs. I am psyched about earning minimum wage instead of working in a Training program that pays us pennies on a dollar.

Meet the Project Free Team and help Make it Happen!!
We need your ideas, your energy and financial
Support.

Continue reading »]]>

What’s Cooking??!!

Project Free, in conjunction with Freedom Academy’s Culinary Program is excited to announce its 2011 “What’s Cooking” Special Chef’s Challenge! So put on your hats and aprons and show us your favorite kitchen creation.  Several of our lucky contestants will appear on our Project Free Cooking Show!!

Tell your friends!  Project Free is giving you the chance to appear on a Project Free Cooking Show!   All you have to do is email us your favorite recipe and a short video (3 minutes or less) of yourself preparing or just explaining your dish.  (Videos could show the ingredients necessary and the finished dish, for example.)  Submissions without a printed recipe included in the email or with videos longer than 3 minutes cannot be entered.  You may enter as many different recipes as you like.

Categories for this year’s contest will be:

• Salads
• Entrees
• Desserts

Please sign on to the profile page to enter the contest. Entries will be posted on our website.  The winner will be determined by how many people visited your recipe, the rating it received and the originality of your video!  So have fun, get cooking and tell your friends and family to go to myprojectfree.org to rate all the delicious dishes!!!

Continue reading »]]>

The first season of New England’s Got Special Talent consisted of five shows on MetroCast Public Access TV aired in Southeastern Connecticut. All of the shows are posted on myprojectfree.org for family, friends and all of you, our website visitors, to continue to watch and enjoy and post your comments. Thirteen performers and eight judges along with the Project FREE volunteer production team contributed their talents to the success of the show.

New England’s Got Special Talent is a variety show, loosely modeled on America’s Got Special Talent. The show showcases the very special talents, abilities, and achievements of performers who have too often been described, defined and judged only by their disabilities. Musical performances range from hip hop to classical including vocals, instrumentals, bands, individual and group acts along with comedic and dramatic poetry readings. First season viewers were urged to post their votes for their favorite performances on myprojectfree.org. The support for all of the performers was great as hundreds of viewers cast their votes. Top vote getter was Veronica Ventura performing “Love Song” by Christine Aguilera.

We extend our heartfelt thanks and enthusiastic congratulations to all of the very talented performers, judges and crew. Please continue to visit our site for the time and place of the shows Grand Finale soon to be posted.

Take a moment now to view one or more of the shows and/or individual acts to take another look at the very special performances of our wonderful contestants!!