Girl, 11, to sell her doll, Faith Hope, for Katrina victims

Eleven-year-old Mickinzie Hourlland is giving her doll away to bring hope and relief to the homeless and hungry victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Mickinzie loves dolls, and started making her own distinctive vinyl dolls about a year ago. When the collection grew to about 30 or more, her dad insisted she start a business and sell a few.

Sales have not been brisk, she admits. But she had a cause to make her latest doll, a brunette baby in pink gingham she named Faith Hope.

“I decided I wanted to raffle one off and send the money to the Katrina victims,” she said. “They need money more than I do.”

She made the doll over two days after the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. She chose a doll that looks compassionate.

“She just looks like she feels for them,” Mickinzie said.

Mickinzie is selling $1 raffle tickets for the life-like doll, or six tickets for $5. She plans to sell tickets at her booth at the Rathdrum Fall Festival, Sept. 24, and by phone. Call (208) 772-6823 to order tickets.