Message From the Executive Directors

StandUp For Kids of Orlando is running at full speed with many concurrent activities!  With a strong leadership team and a great group of volunteers, we are now officially walking the streets of Orlando in search of homeless and street kids.  In addition, we are holding our first fundraising event in April; a car wash at a local Wal-mart.  This newsletter issue will discuss the above topics, and more, such as the “Volunteers of the Quarter”, and ways you can get involved through volunteering, giving, or just by helping turn Orlando Purple.  Please take a moment to think about what it is like to be a young child, starving on the street, begging for food, contemplating suicide, and having to sell your body in order to eat.  This is not what we want for our kids, and these are not the choices that they should have to make.  This is a great cause, but we cannot do it alone.  Please help us help kids!!!

In kind regards,
Jeremy and Apurva
Executive Directors of Orlando

Orlando officially begins Outreach Program

The Orlando chapter has officially started walking the streets in search of street kids!! On March 22,  Orlando’s Outreach Director, Peter Wojcik, lead a team of dedicated Orlando volunteers to the streets of Downtown Orlando on a Wednesday night for the first time.   We met a young girl, called Dream, who came to Orlando with her boyfriend.  Her relationship, for which she had left her family and home town Omaha, Nebraska, was broken and she was out on streets alone and pregnant.  Dream needs a ride back home, but SUFK needs your help!  Anyone who would like to purchase the bus ticket for this young lady so that she can return home to Omaha Nebraska, please contact us at Orlando@StandUpForKids.org.  Please help in changing someone’s life for better and uniting hearts that have been broken!

Wal-Mart Carwash

The Orlando chapter will be conducting its first fundraising event, CAR WASH, on Saturday, April 8th from 9:00am – 3:00pm at the Walmart Neighborhood Market on South Alafaya Trail near Waterford Lakes.   The Walmart Neighbourhood Market is generously matching our car wash cash donations upto $500.  Please participate in this event and encourage friends and family to support.  The money collected will be used to support our Outreach and Don’t Run Away programs, and our Kids needs to help make a difference in their lives.  They are on a road that has several turns; with our help they can make the right turn, and get back to a more respected and enjoyable life. 

Orlando Turns Purple

Let's turn Purple in April.  The Turn Purple Campaign is the nation’s first campaign against child abuse and the resulting problem of youth homelessness.  In America, 90% of children who run away have encountered mental, physical, emotional, and/ or sexual abuse. No child wants to live on the streets. No child wants to have to beg, steal, sell drugs, and/ or themselves just to survive. Please provide your support! Click here to sign our petition.