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PRESENTING SPONSOR, ALLY BUILDING SOLUTIONS 2025 CHARI-TEE GOLF TOURNAMENT
This year alone, the organization has assembled roughly 5,000 care kits, including Florida-heat survival packs with sunscreen and hats, and kid-specific kits distributed through schools. “These children are growing up in chaos,” she says. “The least we can do is give them something small that says, you matter.” Building a Village for Youth Some projects change the landscape; others change lives. The Forward Paths Foundation micro-home village in Eustis, Florida did both. Ten tiny homes. Each a bridge for young adults aging out of foster care, many facing homelessness the day they turned eighteen.
“They help them enroll in school, get jobs, learn to live independently,” Kacsandi says. “We saved them so much on the first project they banked it and are now building another ten homes on donated land in Leesburg. That’s forty new beds—forty chances.” But the true transformation came after the ribbon-cutting. “A year later, they have Christmas parties. They make pancakes together. There’s a community garden. They didn’t have family before, and now they do.” She pauses. “That one really gets me. And the fact that we get to do it again, it’s everything.” Affordable Futures, Built to Last
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