FAQP, Inc. "Apple House" Project

Help us raise funds to provide a safe, interactive and educational space for young girls and women within the Flora community!  What began as a community service-based beauty pageant has now grown into a central hub of charitable hearts within the City of Flora and surrounding communities.  The Flora Apple Queen Pageant was founded in 2016 as a form of pageantry focused on building character, empowering youth and serving our community.  Each year, contestants join hands in an effort to better themselves as well as overcome personal struggles and adversity in their own lives.  As a part of the process of building their own character, we teach them to love their community and to show compassion for others who may be less fortunate or going through tough times.  

Whether it's building handicap ramps for disabled Veterans, raising money for our local Cancer Crusader organization, or generating funding for the Flora Academic Foundation, our girls learn the love of commitment which empowers them to understand they have a very loud and BOLD voice within this community.

In 2019, the Apple Queen Pageant took a major leap by becoming a formal non-profit 501(c)(3) as well as establishing its first Board of Directors.  Our primary mission shifted from becoming just a 2 night pageant, to becoming a 365 day program aimed at helping area youth.  Although the culmination of our year-long program ends with a Pageant, one of our long-term goals was to develop a safe and welcoming location where girls could attend team-building events or after-school activities.  In addition, our goal was to give access to a Certified Life Coach that could talk to them about the many struggles of being a child in a modern society, such as body-shaming, bullying, drug and alcohol abuse in the home, physical abuse and much more. 

Our goal for this fundraiser is to raise sufficient funds to provide our girls with a safe place of which they can attend knowing they can better themselves in a low-pressure environment.  Because of your funding, we will be able to create and sustain the resources they need to deal with the growing pressures of adolescence.  We thank you so much for your generosity and passion in helping us achieve our dream to create "The Apple House".