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The Variety Club provides electric wheelchairs to the children, take them on outings to exciting places, equip children's hospitals, and help in many other ways. The story begins when a mother of eight leaves her newly born child in a theater on Christmas eve in 1928 with a note saying to take care of her baby. Head of the Sheridan Theater , John H. Harris, took care of the baby and started the Variety Club International along with ten other men. From then on The Variety Club has expanded to 14 countries and has 50 branches.
The St. Louis agency itself began in 1932 making it one of the oldest agencies and it has raised over $3.4 million that go straight to the children in need of help. The Variety Club serves 93 different agencies in the St. Louis area. They have given money to Covenant House, Our Lady's Inn, Cardinal Glennon Hospital, and many other agencies.
I feel that the Variety Club is an organization of faith because of its undying love and consideration for the children they help on a daily basis. The Variety Club has offered so much time and money to the children they care for that it is, to say the least, an organization of faith.
Someday I would like the opportunity to serve at the Variety Club Adventure Camp. I have heard great things about the program both from the website and my aunt, Janice Summers, who has volunteered their before. I hope that if I volunteer at the Variety Club I will become more grateful for the gifts God has given me after seeing that not all kids are as lucky as me and do not have it near as good.
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