StandUp For Kids Hosts Do1Thing
Over 24 Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographers Join Project
To Put A Face On Youth Homelessness Valentine’s Day 2009
IRVINE, CA ~ This Valentine’s Day homeless youth all over America find their plight of survival spotlighted by an exciting new project. Aimed at revealing the everyday struggles of over 1.3 million kids living on the streets, Do1Thing.org, the largest socially conscious multimedia campaign of it’s kind, has partnered with StandUp For Kids to literally put a face on the issue of youth homelessness in hopes of moving Americans to activism.
Using the power of photography and video to touch people and bring about change, the project unites dozens of the most famous photographers, many Pulitzer Prize winners, and photo editors in the business.
On Valentine’s Day, photographers will “do 1 thing” by documenting the lives of some of our most vulnerable youth. On the day where we spend 14 billion dollars telling each other how much we care, we’re asking everyone to “Do 1 Thing” for this 1 cause on this 1-day. Visit www.standupforkids.org or www.do1thing.org to find ways you can ‘Do1Thing” in over 40 Cities across the US.
During the Do 1 Thing event on Saturday February 14, 2009 STANDUP FOR KIDS Orange County will be hosting a table from 8a-4p at Panama Joe’s Hair Design 17911 Sky Park North Suite K, Irvine, CA. Our volunteers will be accepting used working cell phones, monetary donations, gift cards, volunteers and more. For a complete list of specific items our program needs please email orangecounty@standupforkids.org or call 949.357.4298.
The facts are staggering: 1 out of every 7 kids will runaway by the time they turn 18. That’s 5 kids out of every classroom (based on a classroom of 35). Studies also show that a runaway has about 48 hours before turning to an illegal act for survival. Predators know a child on the streets is scared and more willing to give in to the selling of drugs or even worse, their bodies, just for something to eat. Thirteen of these same kids die everyday on our streets.
StandUp For Kids, the largest volunteer organization of its kind, utilizes volunteers through an “on-the- streets” outreach effort to find and assist homeless and street kids in 40 cities across 22 States and the District of Columbia. Recognized by the White House on numerous occasions and recently instrumental in encouraging Congress to pass a resolution naming November as National Homeless Youth Awareness Month.
