Worthy youth and poultry cause needs your help!!!!

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My fellow friends of the feather, I come to you for some assistance! A local organization that I come to know over the past couple years is in the running for 50k from the Pepsi Refresh Grant Project.

This program serves at risk youth by taking them from the environments where they find trouble, and giving them time on a small farm where they tend a flock of Golden Comet hens and a heard of Boer Goats. They also tend garden plots to raise vegetables for cooking and learn skills for independent living later in life, they also learn fiscal responsibility from selling the eggs and produce at the local farmers market.

On-The-Rise has turned around the life of many kids and is very important to our community. The administrator has become a good friend of mine and has devoted her life to these kids and this program, and I'm certain this money would go a long way to filling the gap recently left by state budget cuts. Can you please help by voting daily?


http://www.refresheverything.com/ontherise


Thank you so much!
 
Thank you! Odd though, I figured there would be more of an interest in this!....common guys...troubled youth and chickens, how can you not be interested...
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Thank you! It really is a great program. The kids learn so much. She is also an advisor for a 4-h club that many of the kids participate in with the goats. I work for another community service program and we often refer kids to this program which is how I leared of it to begin with. It is because of her that I got my first 4 Golden Comet hens...
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If I only knew where that was going to lead I would have stuck to buying eggs from her kids!
 
perhaps I posted this in the wrong section...how would the mods feel about cross posting in this particiuarl circumstance?
 
OK gang...less than half a month to go...I was really hoping to garner more support from the poultry community than I have so far! I am pleading for your help on this....these are kids that are lost and desperately need some direction in their lives. I can't begin to tell you some of the changes I have seen first hand from this program, and it all starts with a chicken...go figure! At any rate, please consider giving them your vote....remember the vote for Anne(I think thats what it was) we had going...well, this is even just as, if not more important in my book. Lets "band" together and help them rise to the top. I know this board has the numbers, just help me get the word out to every one else on the board!


Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

Jason
 

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