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We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message. View source image on contributor's website. Los Angeles Public Library rarebook lapl. Verify Email:. How would you best describe yourself? If "Other," please specify. The crusade made serious demands on her time: appearances and fourteen anti-drug speeches in alone. Her intense effort to fight school-age drug and alcohol abuse took her to sixty-five cities in thirty-three states and nine foreign countries.
She also invited the spouses of two dozen heads of state to a three-day anti-drug forum in Washington and Atlanta. By , some 19, foster grandparents served some 65, children through projects in all fifty states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. She took the camera that you were shining on her and turned it around and focused it on a cause — one she could do something about.
Reagan discussed her pet project, the Foster Grandparent Program, in an exclusive telephone interview from Washington Monday, in advance of the book's publication. Reagan is sponsoring a picnic for foster grandparents and children from Washington, Baltimore and Richmond, Va. After lunch, singer Frank Sinatra, a close friend of the Reagans, will sing 'To Love a Child,' a song he has recorded with proceeds going to the Foster Grandparents program.
The funds from sale of the book also will go to the program. Reagan's book, written with the help of free-lance author Jane Wilke, tells the intimate stories of nearly three dozen different Foster Grandparent-child relationships and describes the nearly insurmountable problems overcome with perseverance. You're more patient, more tolerant, qualities necessary for this job. Everyone benefits from the love, Mrs. Reagan said.
Start with the children, institutionalized because they're blind, deaf or otherwise physically or mentally handicapped, as well as juvenile offenders and those who are abused or neglected. Equal benefits come to the elderly. Caring for these special children 'gives them a hold on life, a reason to get up and get out, the feeling of being needed and wanted and loved.
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