Generosity from a GARAGE SALE
By Mikayla Coffeen-Vandeen, age 8
My baby sister was born with a cleft palate. A cleft palate is a hole in the back of your mouth. If you have a cleft palate, you have to drink out of special bottles. Also, you speak differently. When she was one-year-old, we found out about NFFR and IRPS, and a special doctor named Dr. Cutting did a surgery to fix her palate. Now she is two and she can say almost anything you can say like dog, catmommy, or daddy. She can eat easily and drink juice from a straw.
Not long ago, my friends' families and my family decided to have a garage sale. I wanted to give the money to charity and I picked NFFR. The sale was great and I even ran a lemonade and brownie stand with my friends, Sarah and Clare. We raised a ton of money and gave it to the NFFR.
I picked this charity because when kids who have cleft palates or lips get older, bullies sometimes make fun of them and even nice kids will look at them in a weird way because they are different. They shouldn't make fun of them because they are exactly the same on the inside as everyone else. I think our garage sale will help lots of kids and I feel good that I've helped people.
