Boys & Girls Clubs launch campaign to help homeless

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October 25, 2012

Boys & Girls Clubs launch campaign to help homeless

Staff report CNHI The Times Enterprise Thu Oct 25, 2012, 01:35 PM EDT

THOMASVILLE — Marguerite Neel Williams Boys & Girls Clubs of SWGA/The Club Teen Center announce the launch of a community-wide service campaign designed to help area homeless in need of socks. Spearheaded by the Unity Keystone Club — a character and leadership program for Boys & Girls Clubs members age 14 to 18 — the “Hope for the Homeless” National Keystone Project will give Keystoners insight into the issues of hunger and homelessness in the United States.

The Club Teen Center located at 212 S. Madison St., is one of many clubs across the world participating in the “Hope for the Homeless” service initiative. The project is in partnership between Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and Taco Bell Foundation for Teens, a private foundation created by Taco Bell. Taco Bell Foundation for Teens is the largest teen program donor to BGCA, giving more than $30 million to support teen programming since 1995. This support enables BGCA to continue to provide training, programming and support to help meet the needs of teens through the Keystone Club program across the country and in U.S. military installations worldwide.

According to The National Center on Family Homelessness, one in 45 children — 1.6 million children — were living on the street, in homeless shelters or motels, or doubled up with other families. Alarmed about the rapid rate increase of homelessness children, displaced Veterans with no place to go and/or the one in six Americans who remain hungry everyday, the members across the country chose “Hope for the Homeless” as the theme of the 2012-2013 Keystone Club National Service Project.

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