Online Beauty Boutique Launches to Support Women Affected by HIV / AIDS

Mixi Avenue is an online store that “mixes it up on the avenue” by being a one stop natural shop. Providing natural and organic products from co-op businesses such as Global Mamas, Beads for Life, and J Edwards International. Mixi Avenue helps to empower women in developing nations to use their talents and act independently to create businesses that will feed their families.

Pursuing the American Dream

Owner Sharron Stephens decided to finally pursue her dream of owning her own business after suffering the loss of her own mother to HIV/AIDS. Stephens remembered her mother wishing she could live long enough to become an entrepreneur. After the death of her mother, Stephens woke out of her sleep one evening screaming, “What if I don’t make it to 51?”. Stephens decided on that very evening to finally launch her dream to start Mixi Avenue to help other women whose lives have been impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Mixi Avenue Launch Party Promotes Online Store

I attended the Mixi Avenue launch party on December 8 in Southfield, Michigan where we were introduced to each product and given samples. The event was a celebration of the business partnership between women in the USA, Uganda, West Africa (Ghana), the Philippines, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic to support women affected by HIV / AIDS through providing them with a means to create natural beauty products and sell them to an international market.

Help Mixi Avenue Support Children in Need Through “Rock the Box”

Mixi Avenue beauty products can be purchased at MixiAvenue.com. Your order will help support the women of Lesotho and Mixi’s latest philanthropic endeavor, a shoe box campaign called ‘Rock the Box’ which fills shoe boxes with crayons, school supplies, and fun items for children in Lesotho.