Rainbow Sports activities League of Fort Lauderdale, the biggest LGBTQ+ sports activities league in South Florida, has a proud historical past of giving again to the group. This winter they organized their 250+ kickball gamers to buy and accumulate almost 30,000 new gadgets to assist help Broward Home’s mission of enhancing the lives of people impacted by continual well being challenges, together with HIV and drug and alcohol dependency.
Starting from toiletries to mattress linens and clothes, Rainbow Sports activities League has donated over $55,000 value of this stuff that Broward Home assembles into Dignity Baskets. These baskets are given to anybody coming to them in want of transitional housing so they may really feel protected, beloved, and given a 2nd probability of life, with dignity.
“What actually touched me,” stated Rainbow Sports activities League Commissioner Alex Plaza, “was that each one of our groups participated. Our gamers actually got here via for such a worthy trigger. This unbelievable effort was spearheaded by our Philanthropic Director, Timm Keating, whose dedication made all of it doable.”
Victoria Walter, Group Relations Supervisor at Broward Home, expressed her gratitude: “We went from naked cabinets to filling two storage rooms with precious items, all due to the onerous work and generosity of Rainbow’s kickball gamers. We are able to’t thank them sufficient.”
Rainbow League’s sponsors had been additionally an integral half within the success of this program, together with Pause Studio Ftl, Mr. M’s Sandwich Store, No Manors Bar & Lounge, Cajun Bear AC Restore & Fitness center Sportsbar.
ABOUT RAINBOW SPORTS LEAGUE
Rainbow Sports activities League was based in 2017 with the philosophy that each one individuals are welcome to take part in sports activities and actions in a protected, social, and inclusive setting. At present the biggest LGBTQ+ sports activities group in South Florida, they provide programming 6 days every week with Kickball, Pickleball, Volleyball, and Soccer this spring, and increasing to Basketball, Final Frisbee, and extra this summer time. All talent ranges are welcome.
www.RainbowSportsLeague.com
ABOUT BROWARD HOUSE
Broward Home is the oldest and largest supplier of housing and solely substance use remedy middle in Broward County particularly for individuals residing with HIV. Broward Home was based in 1988, in the course of the peak of the AIDS epidemic, as a hospice for terminally unwell, uninsured AIDS sufferers who had been usually affected by excessive poverty. Right this moment, we function a 74-bed transitional housing facility with 24-hour medical help and an onsite substance use remedy program for uninsured individuals residing with HIV. As well as, Broward Home owns and operates 10 house buildings comprising of 72 models of inexpensive rental housing and manages rental subsidy vouchers for over 80 individuals. Our aim is to help the well being and stability of every particular person who walks via our door with a novel plan to their objectives, together with psychological well being counseling, free HIV/STI testing, medical respite care, and wrap-around case administration companies.
www.BrowardHouse.org
