by Lola Burmeister
Drops of Kindness, Inc. (DoK,Inc.) is a non-profit community driven care collective. DoK, Inc. has two primary programs: Mothers for Mothers and Kids Club. Mothers for Mothers provides sliding scale acupuncture and doula services for rural Marquette County in Wisconsin. Our mission is to offer families the best possible start and to support families as they grow. Mothers are offered care in family planning, perinatal care as well as an attendant at their birth. Lactation and pediatric support is offered to all families, as well. Mothers who have been served by DoK, Inc. often volunteer to help other mothers through donations of goods and time, thus the program's name was so found. Aside from our mother mission, DoK, Inc offers all members of our community the modalities of traditional medical care. Last year, we had nearly 30 family memberships and we delivered six babies.
In addition to medical services, DoK, Inc. hosts Kids Club for preteens and teens in our area. Kids Club offers monthly events for youth to promote healthy relationships and healthy lives. In 2024, Kids Club had game day parties in the local restaurant where we ate, played the jukebox, threw darts and played pool. We pile in the Kids Club mobile and go to dinner and a movie on Friday nights. We always meet for holiday parties in the back of our local library where we run around together, play homemade games, make wishes out loud to one another and just have good old country fun. In summer, we take Kids Club on swim tours. We meet and swim at the red bridge, then vote to go to Parker lake, Moon lake or any other wonderful swim hole of the north woods. We had a cabin on Buffalo Lake and rode choppers and cooked all our food outside last summer, too! By far, the favorite event of 2024 for Kids Club was the camping trip to Lake Michigan. We slept in a teepee style tent and body surfed the waves of the midwest. At any given time, Kids Club has eight to thirteen participants. We are proud to keep kids off drugs and out of trouble in rural Wisconsin.
If you are interested in volunteering or working with Drops of Kindness, please contact Executive Director, Lola Burmeister at 831.234.5299 or dropsofkindness.lola@gmail.com. Donations can be made via the website at www.dropsofkindness.net
