Woman turns painful experience in foster care into advocacy for other children
On Saturday, the Fostering Dreams Foundation will host its first child abuse awareness walk at Zeiger Park in DeSoto. Author: Cynthia Izaguirre Updated: 8:17 PM CDT April 22, 2021
DESOTO, Texas Vallery Mitchell would like you to take a walk with her. There s no max on the money we want to raise. The more money we raise the more children we can serve, she said about her foundation fundraiser this Saturday. To foster something means to help something develop. To help something grow. To help something grow what it wants to be, she said about the meaning behind the name of her foundation.
The NSYNC alum, 44, and his 11-year-old daughter Kloey Alexandra appeared on
People (the TV Show!) this week about her appearance in the Runway of Dreams Foundation s one-of-a-kind drive-in adaptive fashion show in Miami, Florida. The show premiered Thursday night. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Kloey, who is on the autism spectrum, walks in the show along with more than 40 Florida-based models, all of whom have a disability or difference. I m most excited that I get to meet new people, Kloey tells host Jeremy Parsons, as Dad interjects, And what
The upper hand! Bodybuilder with congenital birth defect leads charge towards inclusion in fashion industry for people with disabilities walking in Runway of Dreams fashion show
Chris Ruden was born with a congenital birth defect leaving him with only two fingers on his left hand and a shorter left arm
He is a model, bodybuilder and motivational speaker who believes to overcome limitations you must focus on what you can control
On Thursday, March 11, Chris is walking in the Runway of Dreams fashion show
The non-profit foundation is working toward a future of inclusion, acceptance and opportunity in the fashion industry for people with disabilities
Gamut Management, a talent management company exclusively for people with disabilities. After approaching the fashion industry about designing mainstream adaptive clothing less than a decade ago, I m so proud to see how far the movement and the industry have come in such a short time! said Scheier. We are excited that our Fashion Revolution will continue in Miami - under strict guidelines. This new, creative, and safe way shows our resilience as a population. Nothing will stop us!
The event will also feature Runway by SAP, a machine learning-powered app used to identify an item of clothing. Users can love the item, add it to their wish list, buy it, and more. For the Runway by SAP app, download
Sadly, it didn’t, but now that money will do good in the community.
The families of Bryan Benson and Seann Campbell are still searching for answers almost three decades after their sons were taken from them.
“It never goes away. It’s with us every day,” said Janice Benson, Bryan’s mother.
The men, both 20 at the time, were working together at the old West Coast Video rental store in the Rosemore Shopping Center in Warminster back in 1993. They were closing up shop at the time when they were fatally stabbed.
“No matter what, there will never been any closure. You don’t close something like that,” Benson said.