Stop #8: A Detroit Celebration from Foster Youth
For our next stop, we headed to the oldest city in the Midwest: Detroit. In fact, we hosted our event on Detroit’s 212th birthday! Little did we know, we would be getting a Detroit-style celebration from local youth ourselves…
A big thanks to the Ennis Center for Children for providing us not only youth for our event, but a great big parking lot for our venue.
The Foster Love – Together We Rise team had high hopes for the Detroit event, and we were excited when a bus full of foster youth arrived from Matrix Human Services. We were happy to hook everyone up with some new clothes and a hat of their favorite sports team. When the bus left, the kids shouted out a big “Thank You!” in unison, putting a lovely Detroit celebration cherry on top of our Shopping Spree event. It’s really moments like these that warms our hearts and makes all of the hard work worth it!
We also received a lot of positive attention from the locals in the area. Many people stopped by to check out what was going on and to learn more about the great things Foster Love – Together We Rise does for foster youth.
After yet another successful event, the team enjoyed lunch in the city at a great pizza place. One of our very own then got a portrait drawing done by a local Detroit artist!
