Detroit kids’ photos of adoptable pets serve a dual purpose
Youth experiencing homelessness learn creative skills, raise funds for Michigan Humane, COTS
By SaMya Overall
Pets and kids, what’s not to love?
Michigan Humane, Pictures of Hope and the emergency shelter and transitional housing provider COTS recently teamed up to offer photography lessons to kids experiencing homelessness. Their subjects? Pets up for adoption at Michigan Humane.
The photos were on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Design Detroit last week and are now available for purchase. All proceeds go toward COTS and Michigan Humane.
More than 8,500 people experienced homelessness in Detroit in 2022, including 1,000 families with children.
COTS reported providing emergency shelter or supportive housing to 461 adults and 640 children last year. When those families enter the shelter system, they often can’t bring their pets.
Michigan Humane steps up to take care of these animals and many others. The nonprofit took in more than 8,700 animals in Southeast Michigan last year alone.
“To have to come into a shelter, which is already a challenging circumstance, and then to be separated from that pet … that makes it an additional trauma” said Aisha Morrell-Ferguson, chief development officer at COTS.
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