It was stand­ing room on­ly at Raw Star Caf&ea­cute; on Wash­ing­ton Av­enue, Brook­lyn, New York, when New York based Sis­ters in Har­mo­ny launched it's Praise project on Feb­ru­ary 26.The Praise poster, aimed at im­mor­tal­is­ing the majesty of fem­i­nin­i­ty of women of all colours, shapes, and sizes the world over, was one of an ar­ray of aes­thet­ic posters pro­duced by the non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion .With a mis­sion to "unite women of all back­grounds and cul­tures in our com­mu­ni­ty to guide and sup­port the next gen­er­a­tion of young women through men­tor­ing, ed­u­ca­tion and teach­ing them to live with a pur­pose and work to­wards a com­mon goal by har­mon­is­ing their tal­ents, skills and abil­i­ties..." the non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion is all about see­ing the re­turn of pos­i­tive im­ages of women in com­mu­ni­ties.

The group was found­ed in 2009, and boasts more than 300 mem­bers from T&T and across the Caribbean, the Unit­ed States, St Lu­cia, Liberia, and the Unit­ed King­dom. And, ac­cord­ing to founder and pres­i­dent, Ed­mund "Umo­ja" Her­man, more than 60 per cent of the posters fea­ture Caribbean women.Raw Star Cafe, Trinida­di­an born Mawule Jo Si­mon played host to a stand­ing room on­ly crowd. Spir­i­tu­al ad­vi­sor, Grand Mas­ter Kham opened the event by in­vok­ing the bless­ings of the an­ces­tors via li­ba­tion.Al­so in at­ten­dance was Tu­lani Ki­nard of Sweet Hon­ey in the Rock fame, who was al­so fea­tured on the Praise poster.