Hilltop Butterfly Garden

beauty from darkness

Through the garden, we will show children beauty amidst the darkness they know all too well. From our Hilltop Butterfly Garden, children will learn how to care for others and themselves - and learn that THEY are valuable, worthy, and beautiful.

why a butterfly garden?

Over the last several years, the Hilltop area of Columbus has become a dark, painful place, due to high rates of human trafficking, opiate overdose, gun violence, prostitution, and homelessness. More than 130 synthetic drugs are produced and sold on our streets. Our city ranks 4th in Human Trafficking use and 2nd in opiate overdose deaths. These conditions have lead to Hilltop’s double our county’s average infant mortality rate.

But out of darkness there is love. Love has taken shape in the form of a butterfly garden from which children of these streets can see and realize something better. From this garden location we can offer camping experiences and other educational opportunities that teach children how to love others and find value and dignity in themselves. From this garden we can dream of a hostel that will someday care for children of mothers in recovery from drugs, abuse, and trafficking.

This is our butterfly garden. This is a window of hope in a broken neighborhood.

We need your help!

Each summer, 15 Boys and 15 Girls will join to learn, play, and camp together in our Butterfly garden. We want to make this a memorable event for the neighborhood kids, and we need your help to do it. Your financial support would empower us to provide the food and entertainment needed to send this event over the top! Please join us, partner with us, and donate what you can!

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