Who Needs a Handyman When You Can Be a Handywoman?™
Your Handywoman (YHW) + Do It Yourself (DIY) = yhwDIY.com
Allison Oropallo, created yhwDIY.com to share her projects with the community. This is an environment aimed at facilitating community involvement and community organization. Allison Oropallo strongly believes that change is realized when dedicated individuals come together in our communities.
When we work together, sharing our knowledge and skills with one another, we are able to create and solve any problems or obstacles that confront us. As a teacher and lifelong DIY'er, Allison’s message is that knowledge plus hardwork and teamwork is the formula for positive change and a better world.
Who needs a handyman when you can be a handywoman™ carries the message of self-empowerment. The basic concept is that you can do anything- figure it out! Self-empowerment leads to community-empowerment; together we can build anything and we can do anything.
Allison Oropallo created YHWDIY.com to help empower women and all individuals of our world community to embrace their handiness within!
Allison Oropallo shows you how to build a gumball candy machine! | Your Handywoman! | AllisonOropallo.com from Allison Oropallo on Vimeo.
I love my job for so many reasons. Being a woman who works with wood and in construction offers me a unique opportunity to help, educate, and provide a dynamic example to women. When I am hard at work I feel immense satisfaction from designing, building, creating, and completing projects. All my life, I have constructed things on my own and figured out how to complete difficult projects. It isn't just the finished product that excites me, but the satisfaction of knowing I can do anything.
I love being an educator. I teach an awesome class and have a great woodshop. I enjoy demonstrating for students that any problem can be solved if approached with the right tools, skills, and ideas. When a project is hard, some students think that it is impossible to complete. Once they start, however, this illusion is destroyed and they know that anything is possible with the right knowledge. I love watching proud students present their finished work to their parents. Another way I feel I get to educate is by providing a strong example to women. I like showing that you don't have to be a man to do what society considers men's work. Far too often women immediately dismiss "men's work" as impossible. I believe my success as a handywoman provides an example to females that anyone can achieve their independence and accomplish their dreams.
