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Each year the Overland Park Rotary Club
selects charities to receive money raised by the Star Spanged Spectacular
event. Charities selected for the year 2004 are The Kansas Service
League, Solace House and The Gift of Life Foundation. Listed below
is a brief description of these deserving charities.
Healthy Families Johnson County
Kansas Children Service League is a statewide
non-profit organization with the mission to protect and promote
the well being of all Kansas children. Healthy Families Johnson
County is a child abuse prevention program working to keep families
together by teaching and modeling positive parenting and child development.
Intensive home visitation (weekly) is provided to first time parents
on a voluntary basis. Services begin either prenatally or before
the child is 3 months old and continues to until the child is three
to five years old.
Click here to visit
the Kansas Service League Website
Solace House
The mission of Solace House is to provide
grief support to children and families that have been affected by
death. Solace House offers peer support in a creative, compassionate
environment with a structured curriculum delivered by trained facilitators.
As a community resource, our goal is to equip children and families
with the tools to promote healing and guide them toward a positive
direction in life."
Click here
to visit the Solace House Website
Gift of Life Foundation
Studies show that 85% of Americans believe
in organ and tisse donation, but only about one-third of the available
solid organ donors' families actually give the gift of life. The
challenge is to close this gap. The mission of Gift of Life Foundation
is to increase awareness about the urgent need of organ and tissue
donation. 17 people per day die due to a lack of available organs
for transplant. 0 lives will be saved if we do nothing.
Gift of Life Foundation empowers individuals to communicate the
life saving value of organ and tissue donation.
Click here
to visit the Gift of Life Foundation Website
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