HOPE, Inc. Hosts First-Ever Children’s Pageant

The nonprofit's leadership wanted to give a stage to kids who perhaps don't get the opportunity to compete in more traditional pageants.

MOORHEAD, MN (KVRR) – Your average pageant doesn’t generally go out of its way to focus on those with mobility issues or those unfamiliar with the limelight.

That’s why HOPE, Inc., in its never-ending quest to create activities to make everyone feel included, decided to organize its first-ever pageant specifically for those children.

Kids who likely never envisioned performing for an audience were interviewed and then got to display their most valued skills.

Some were rewarded with sashes and fancy crowns, but Hope Inc., says that even the quote unquote “losers” learned a valuable lesson from putting themselves out there.

“Even when they’re not crowned king or queen, or Mr. Hope or Mrs. Hope, they learn that they did great and they were successful,” said Bill Grommesh, executive director of HOPE, Inc.

18 kids in total entered this pageant.

The winners get to come back and judge next years’ installment, which the organization says they expect to have a much bigger turnout.