Brave Angel Wants Homeless Kids Helped

LAKE ORION, Mich. (WJBK) - "You'd never expect that somebody could do this for you. It's just the most wonderful blessing, it really is," said Laura Bostick.

This could be a story about organ donation. Bostick is getting a life-saving kidney transplant. The donor is her friend's husband.

"They told me it's a disease so rare that it would be easier to get hit by lightning twice," she said.

This could also be a story about a very rare, life-threatening disease called Goodpasture's syndrome that has attacked Bostick's kidneys, but instead she wants to talk about homeless kids and the young people benefiting from Covenant House Michigan.

"There should be no kids on the street. There should be no kids that are unloved, uncared for. It's not right," she explained.

It's what Bostick has dedicated her time to for the last several years with an amazing group of women in her charity Calling All Angels. Her illness has only made her more determined, and one of her doctors at the Mayo Clinic has been her inspiration, a doctor who had himself been homeless and helped save her life.

"I just said to my husband, 'I'm not giving up. I got to help these kids,'" Bostick told FOX 2's Amy Lange.

She wants everyone to know as she enters the hospital again that the Calling All Angels fundraiser is coming up on November fourth. She wants to raise $100,000 for Covenant House Michigan, which gives housing and hope to thousands of homeless and at-risk young people, taking to the streets to rescue them.

"The outreach program goes out on the streets looking for kids that are living in abandoned houses or cars or just maybe going from house to house, so they're able to reach kids and get them back into programs," said Melissa Golpe with Covenant House Michigan.

That outreach is so important to her that she's not willing to let a kidney transplant stand in the way of her fundraising.

"I'm going to be there. I don't care if I have to go in a mask and gloves, I'm going to be at that event," she said.

Bostick hopes you will be there too. Click here for more information about the event.