Mercy Education Project: Empowering Michigan’s Women Through Education

“She believed she could and so she did.”

The Mercy Education Project or better known as MEP, is an all-female educational resource facility in Detroit, Michigan. MEP’s mission is to empower the women and girls of Detroit through education and career enrichment. Their personalized approach to education leaves their women and girls knowing that they are enough and that they are worthy of education and striving for greatness.

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Graffiti Alley | Discover Ann Arbor

In an unassuming corner in downtown Ann Arbor, there is a work of art tucked away in a mundane alleyway. Off of East Liberty Street, down an alley next to the Michigan Theater, numerous artists have collaborated to create a wall to wall graffiti masterpiece. Graffiti Alley, as it’s known to locals, has been a mainstay of Ann Arbor street art for the past 20 years. While Graffiti Alley is now a hub for all artists to explore their creativity, it wasn’t always this way.

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Dearborn: A City of Dreams, Success, & Simplicity

Everyday thousands of people bustle to work in the city that is home to some of the top companies, such as the Ford Motor Company, Carhatt, LaFontaine, Al Wissam, and more. It’s also home to the smell of fresh baked bread and desserts as you hear the native languages of small business owners, many of whose families have been here since the early twentieth century. The same city boasts the longest running full time bird research station in North America, documenting the sightings of 250 species of birds. And in between the companies and headquarters are wide open fields of sunflowers and soybeans that a variety of birds, bees, butterflies, foxes, and other animals call home.

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Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes

The Dunes offer visitors sightseeing and recreational and educational opportunities in all seasons of the year. In spring, summer and fall, swim and picnic at sugar sand beaches; canoe, kayak or tube on crystal-clear streams; or, simply let the day slip away with a late summer sunset. Wintertime provides a much different view. Snowshoe, cross country or downhill ski, snowboard or venture into the wilderness. Your only company will be the Dunes' year-round residents: its natural wildlife.

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