Birdhouse auction feathers nest for Project Return
21.05.12
Project Return's 17th annual Birdhouse Auction on Friday was the setting for some of the most creative submissions in the event's history, according to many in the crowd of more than 400 who attended the fundraiser.
The audience at Rolling Hills Country Club in Wilton also learned the importance of the event to the 25-year-old Westport-based organization, which specializes in the care of adolescent girls in crisis. Project Return also provides a support system to the young women after, in keeping with the birdhouse theme, they find their own wings, fly away and build nests of their own.
Many in the audience were moved to tears during the testimonial by a former resident of the Project Return house, identified only as Myra of Norwalk. Myra shared intimate stories about her troubled young life: her mother's death from AIDS, her father's overdose, her brother's incarceration, and her 22 placements as a ward of the state in foster homes, shelters, hospitals and group homes.
Source: Westport-News