Invitation - Friends of Youth Outreach

You’re Invited…
Inaugural
Fundraiser for
Youth Outreach
T
he Youth Outreach House (YO House) in
- Waikiki has been in existence since 1989,
serving runaway, abused and neglected homeless
kids. The YO House offers hot meals, warm showers,
lockers, health care, education and employment
assistance, and a lot of aloha. However, the YO
house is a drop-in center only open a few hours a
week, and can’t offer a safe place to sleep. The kids
must leave at the end of the day and are back on
the streets at night. With the sweeps and the park
closures they turn to desperate survival skills.
It is essential that we create a shelter for their
safety. A place is needed where our homeless youth
can overcome their fear of abuse: a place where our
Keiki can be nurtured and helped educationally to
gain self-confidence in becoming independent, selfreliant citizens of our community. We need a place
for them to learn the skills to prevent a path toward
adult homelessness.
A
group of committed supporters realize how
urgently the Youth Outreach House needs
to be an overnight facility. The Friends of Youth
Outreach formed a committee, FOYO, to raise funds
for this purpose. Hawai‘i has the highest percentage
of homelessness in the country; 21% of them are
kids. Our dream is a permanent safe facility where
homeless youth can get a second chance in life. We
need to get them off the streets and stop the cycle of
homelessness.
The Friends of Youth Outreach
invite you to join them for the
Inaugural
Fundraiser for
Youth Outreach
April 23, 2016
6pm to 10pm
The U.S.S. Missouri
in Pearl Harbor
Dine and dance under the stars!
Let’s create a safe place for homeless youth
Swing into the 1940s in your
dress whites or period aloha attire
Information at:
www.friendsofyouthoutreach.org
R.S.V.P.
Enclosed card or
[email protected]
Board of Directors
Richard Chamberlain, Honorary Chair
Skip Adams
Dana Anderson
Jane Anderson
Steve Egesdal
Leonard Jaffe
Samantha Maguire
Martin Rabbett
Dewey Rose
Contact Us
www.friendsofyouthoutreach.org
[email protected]
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Friends of Youth Outreach
91-1264 Kaiopua Street
Ewa Beach, HI 96706