Past Missions
Our Clubs
In 2001, Butterfly was asked by several North Little Rock officials, including Mayor Patrick Hays, to provide support for the Our Club that meets in the old Argenta train station in the Sherman Park community of North Little Rock. Our Clubs are havens for children at risk in our society. The Sherman Park Our Club, and a second Our Club in the North Little Rock Housing Authority’s Silver City Courts Housing Project, the oldest Housing Project in Arkansas were supported in large part by Butterfly. Both clubs minister to grade school, middle school, and high school children in the afternoons. They provide them with nutritional meals and snacks and strive to meet the children’s educational needs including tutoring, providing school supplies and uniforms. They also address the community environment in which the at risk children live. The two Clubs are operated by Leifel Jackson, reformed leader of the Original Ganster Crips who turned his life around to nurture and mentor at risk children rather than lead then into a life of crime. He is assisted by three staffers. As many as 100 children attend the two clubs.
Some of the children who visit Our Club are members of single-parent homes. Many of these parents are working, 
struggling, and striving for the best for their child, but this very action leaves the child alone, vulnerable to the dangers in our society: namely gangs and drug abuse. Our Club provides a safe place by giving the children a sense of belonging and stability in a safe environment, off the streets, during the crucial hours from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Volunteers give of their time by playing games, talking to the children and listening to their stories, doing art activities and crafts, tutoring or mentoring them.
In addition, Butterfly assisted people in these neighborhood by providing minor home repair and installing window air conditioning units for the elderly.