Giving Back With Dodgeball: Area Students Organize Charity Tournament for Africa
Two Farmington Hills Mercy High School students are hosting Dodge for a Cause this weekend at Groves, a charity dodgeball tournament that's raising money for the Troy nonprofit, Bands that JAM for Africa.
When Mercy High School sophomores Alexandria Sobczak and Christina Miracle began thinking about what they wanted for Christmas this year, they had one big idea: they wanted to give back. Though the teens attend school in Farmington Hills and live in Bloomfield Hills and Beverly Hills, they're giving back to a Troy-based charity to help those who not only don't have Christmas presents, but who don't have food, water or a place to sleep at night. In Dodge for a Cause, a charity dodgeball tournament happening this Sunday at Birmingham's Groves High School, the girls are pairing up with the nonprofit Bands that JAM for Africa. The organization hosts benefit concerts and provides funding for the South African-based nonprofit, Joint Aid …
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