At Windermere, it is tradition every June that for a day we close our office doors and give back to our community. This year we are excited to host our second annual community challenge, Windermere’s Walk for a Cause. Where five teams will lace up their walking shoes to help raise money for their team’s organization.
Since the beginning, Mirror Ministries has had a vision of building and opening a home for local and regional survivors of sex trafficking. Through our drop-in Outreach Center, we have helped survivors leave exploitation, start new jobs, get back to school or start college.Imagine how much more we could accomplish with the intensive, wraparound residential care these survivors need to thrive long-term. A pastoral and serene-feeling property, away from things that trigger painful memories, will give these young girls a feeling of safety. A home where young victims can come to feel safe and cherished, learn to trust, begin to heal, and become victors over the horrific trauma they have endured.
Mikey’s Chance is named for a dog called Mikey – a big, friendly black Labrador whose people abandoned him. He spent several months in a cramped kennel in an overcrowded shelter, slowly losing hope. At last a rescue worker heard of his plight and found him a foster home – but she was too late. On the very day she arrived to fetch him, Mikey had growled at shelter workers, likely as a result of kennel stress, and was deemed potentially dangerous. He was euthanized that very day.Mikey’s chance at a new life came too late. Our goal is to reach other dogs in time.We do not hold our dogs in a kennel facility. All of our dogs live in private foster homes, where they receive loving care, socialization, and training. Our goal is to find the best possible match between dog and human, to ensure that when our dogs go home, it really is forever.
Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges—whether they want to climb to the top of a tree or the top of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for climate justice, or make their first best friends.Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
The Humane Society Of Eastern Oregon\Pet Rescue is an open-door, non-profit animal shelter and adoption facility serving the Umatilla and Morrow County area. We are a municipal animal shelter for the city of Hermiston. We are dedicated to providing adequate shelter for homeless animals, uniting families with their lost pets, and finding abandoned animals their forever families.
