Great Golfers Help Great Kids
There is a wonderful charity in Michigan called Eagles for Children, and they have been helping Lost Voices change young lives for two years. Twenty of Michigan’s finest country clubs participate in a brilliant program in which club members donate a few dollars every time any member scores an eagle. For non-golfers, that involves scoring two strokes under par on a hole. In 2022 each eagle scored in one of the clubs raised, on average, $1,142. By the end of the year, the twenty clubs raised a total of $1,012,465! They gave Lost Voices a generous grant for this year that we used toward funding three programs with the girls at Vista Maria.
The first program was in April. We worked with a great group of young women who were specially cleared to be filmed. This is extremely rare with our population of kids, and was accomplished so that they could be included in a 2023 CNN Heroes segment partly filmed during a creative session and their final concert. They wrote a group song, titled The System, that deals with the frustrations of being in residential placement and in the foster care system in general. The lyrics are posted below. (more…)