A Great Cause

It’s pretty easy to support a foster kid. They’ve got stories. Children, without these fascinating, tragic stories, invoke sympathy and, hopefully, support. I did an online fundraising last year to help the kids I represent. I set it up online, told the story of what I did for work and how these kids are so deserving, and asked all my friends and family to help support the cause by donating as much as they could to my online fundraising for foster kids. Specifically, my online fundraising was geared toward renovating and revitalizing the children’s waiting room at the courthouse to make it more fun for the kids.
But I’m in the thick of it and so my online fundraising was a pretty simple thing for me to think of and execute.

Kayla is not. She’s just a sixteen-year-old kid with a big heart, and she's doing an amazing online fundraising for foster kids, too: http://www.crowdrise.com/Grant16Wishes/fundraiser/KaylaLaBar

I love to tell stories about great causes and a really inspiring online fundraising. This one is especially incredible. Kayla started an online fundraising called “Grant 16 Wishes.”

Kayla is turning sixteen this year and she’s giving up her birthday party, her cake, presents and her entire sweet sixteen for foster kids. Grant 16 Wishes, by Kayla is an online fundraising where she’s hoping to raise as much money as possible to be able to give toys to sixteen kids in foster care – one for each year of her young life. Her online fundraising tells the story about why she’s giving up her birthday. She says that the “only present suitable this year is the joy of giving.” Kayla wants “to give, not get” for her birthday and through her online fundraising, she’s making a pretty huge impact. At just 16, Kayla already seems to understand the idea that foster kids are supported by the state, but that usually just covers their basic needs and it doesn’t usually cover the things that these kids want, things they can have just for fun, just because, just because they wished for it. That’s the spirit behind Kayla’s online fundraising and we’ve got to support her.

Kayla’s cause and her online fundraising are so phenomenal. She’s only a kid, and already at the age of sixteen, Kayla’s sacrificing her party for other deserving children, making a big birthday wish to see foster kids get the toys they want through her online fundraising. I hope that Kayla’s going to get all sixteen. And, I’m guessing that when she turns seventeen and on, she’s going to be even more spectacular.