Empower Local Foster-Youth with Paid Jobs!

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FITRAH

Our goal is to increase the amount of youth we serve this year from 10 to 35

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$15,000 goal

Imagine…

Imagine that you are 18, its 2022 and its the 9th home that you are now waking up to.  You come to the breakfast table and nothing is familiar, not even the food on the table.  Its not the pancakes your mom makes from scratch.  You look around and everyone is a stranger.  They are grown ups but there not your parents.  They don't really care about you or ask you how you feel.  Usually your baby sister is next to you, and every morning you look after her, you feed her and care for her but its not the case.  In fact, you don't even know where she is.  

You don't shower or comb your hair.  You let your beard grow, your hair grow, you're in the same ragged clothes for a week now because you don't care!  You hate life.  You're mad at the world.  You don’t feel like there is hope anymore.  

This is a story of a youth named David but this is also the scenario for hundreds of kids every day in Sacramento.  Orphans.  Going from home to home.  Just in Sacramento, there are 2000 orphaned youth with only 200 foster parents to care for them.  The rest are moving around from relatives to group home, institutions, supervised independent living and even out of state because there are so many of them.  Group homes have 6 or more kids that are staying together with different care givers, they used to call it orphanages.   According to statistics, 30% of them are getting abused. 

So let me go back to the scenario…so you have temporary parents, by now you have trauma…trauma from losing your parents, your siblings, the abuse from those temporary parents.  So now you have anger…you get into fights all the time…Little you know you think you are doing good and then all of a sudden your getting into trouble and in jail, and you are like…how did I get here? 


What if there was a way to give these orphans a purpose…

Well what if told you that there is a way to give these orphans a purpose, increase their confidence and self-esteem, decrease their trauma and mental anguish they have, keep them off the streets and out of jails right? While creating jobs and profit?  How would that sound to you? 



There is so much suffering around the world right now but we must also address those right in front of us.  In our own backyard here in Sacramento, California - 40% of the youth just mentioned,  those turning 18 and leave the system this year, will end up homeless. 

They are just kids.  Never had any permanent parents, moving from home to home.  No way to get educated.  No skills to get a job.  No knowledge on how to survive the real world by themselves.  Remember when I spoke of David…who didn't want to get up in the morning?  He had already given up.  What do you think will happen to him when he is out of the foster system?  

How you can help?

We are asking you to help us create real job opportunities for these vulnerable orphaned youth in Sacramento.  We created a social enterprise, (a book business) that they take over and manage.  By running our online store, they learn work skills but mostly gain confidence.  Then we combine it with hands-on support so that they have a clear direction on how to sustain work and/or school and lead better lives.  


















 We need to obtain a large enough location to grow this initiative.  We are working in our garages, small storage unit and a few small office spaces which limits the amount of youth we serve in our program.  We need a 10,000sqft warehouse to have a forklift, conveyor belt and enough shelving to house 20,000 books which will sustain the program. 

We need to raise 65,000K to pay for the first 6 months of our lease and utilities which will enable us to hire an additional 10-15 youth.

Please donate what you can and provide more than just hope for these youth.    

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