Posts Tagged ‘#gigisplayhousetc’
Amelie – Best of All
Amelie, one of our amazing adult self-advocates, joined our GiGi’s community in June 2017. Amelie is kind, bright, thoughtful, hard-working, and friendly. She has participated in so much adult programming in person at the Playhouse in St. Louis Park: Fantastic Friends, Social Skills/Speech – Self Advocacy for Adults, EPIC, as well as attending the quarterly…
Read MoreSahra – Volunteer Spotlight
Over this past year, Sahra, an amazing mother and leader in our GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities community, has inspired many other Somali mothers to get their children involved with the free, progressive, purposeful, educational and therapeutic programming at GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities. Families immediately hear Sahra’s story of her life with her almost seventeen-year-old son…
Read MoreNancy and Aaron (Big Guy) – Volunteer Spotlight
From the very beginning of our opening for GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities in 2013, Nancy and Aaron (Big Guy) have always been here. Families and participants, especially our teens and adults, as well as families of teens and adults, always know that they can count on Nancy and Big Guy to be there for them.…
Read MoreMeet Adam – Best of All
Adam has been involved with GiGi’s for over a year. He participates in tutoring, yoga, and Young Athletes. He loves everything – including playing with babies, grocery shopping, and making new friends. Thank you Adam, and your entire family, for being part of our GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities community!
Read MoreMy GiGi’s Story….Life-Long Relationships and Purpose! Written by: Alison
“I began attending GiGi’s Playhouse – Twin Cities, while nannying in 2015 for Maceo, a young boy with Down syndrome. After bringing him to Open Play, I quickly realized that I wanted to become more involved with this incredible organization and began volunteering that same year. Fast forward to now, I am currently the program lead for the…
Read MoreSahra and Mustaf — A Mother’s Love for her Son and her Community
From the moment you meet Sahra and Mustaf, you immediately feel a sense of positivity, kindness, enthusiasm, leadership, and respect. These traits were instilled in Sahra from birth by her family growing up in Somalia, and Sahra has passed this on to her son Mustaf raising him here, in Minneapolis, as well as two older…
Read MoreDahlia’s Story – Giving from the Heart!
Dahlia had her Bat Mitzvah this May. She decided, on her own, with all her gifts of cash and checks she received from many family members and friends who attended her Bat Mitzvah, that she would pay it forward to her local community. Dahlia thought carefully about all the many causes that she really cared…
Read MoreErin – Volunteer Spotlight
Impact Story of GiGi’s Playhouse – Twin Cities written by Erin, Volunteer: “Whenever Benjamin, a little boy that attends GiGi’s Playhouse – Twin Cities programming, realizes that he’s going to GiGi’s, he hooks his fingers together like they are giving each other a hug. This is the sign for friends in sign language, and I think that’s the perfect way to…
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