The newly fashioned nonprofit San Diego Sparkles Basis, which helps kids displaced by conflict and in danger for human trafficking, will host Kids’s Profit Style Present & Luncheon on Sept. 17 at Hyatt Regency La Jolla from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The aim is to boost $250,000. Kids from San Diego and all through Southern California will take part within the present, with wardrobe courtesy of Macy’s Style Valley and Santori Designer Fashions in Solana Seaside.
“Seeing all of the information and every little thing occurring with human trafficking and orphan kids left after all of the conflict occurring, I began fascinated about what we must always do,” stated Rancho Bernardo resident Kathy Kassardjian, founding father of the group.
Proceeds from the occasion will probably be distributed among the many AMAA Orphan Fund, ECF Kids’s Fund, Bilateral Security Hall Coalition and the Donbas Orphanage in Ukraine, and occasion co-sponsor Trek 2 Share Basis.
Kassardjian’s involvement with Sparkles stems from her expertise fleeing Lebanon in the course of the Civil Warfare together with her toddler little one. After first heading to Uruguay after which Canada, her household settled in the USA. She has lived in San Diego for 42 years.
“God has given us the chance to maneuver right here on this nation and work laborious, make a dwelling, and now I feel it’s time for us to work more durable and provides to different children some meals to placed on their desk,” Kassardjian stated. “Some nations it takes $1 a day to have meals on their desk for a kid to be fed.”
One of many highlights of the occasion will probably be keynote speaker Summer season Stephan, San Diego County’s district legal professional, who has made the combat in opposition to human trafficking one of many hallmarks of her profession.
There are as much as 8,000 human trafficking victims per 12 months in San Diego, in keeping with the district legal professional’s workplace. Human trafficking is often related to ladies and ladies, however boys make up about 50% of trafficking victims within the U.S. LGBTQ youth face an particularly excessive danger. Stephan has additionally issued tricks to hold kids protected. “I handed on [Stephan’s tips] to plenty of folks as a result of I feel typically we dwell in a bubble that sort of distorts actuality,” stated Hillcrest resident Vonnie Madigan, a Sparkles volunteer. “We don’t wish to hover, however we wish to make sure that the youngsters are protected. And I feel, between our native state of affairs and the worldwide state of affairs, these of us who’re blessed sufficient to dwell in San Diego owe it to offer again.”
Tickets vary from $50 every for kids 12 and beneath to $5,000 for a “runway elite desk for 10.” For extra data, e-mail kathykass55@gmail.com. Sparkles Basis might be reached at P.O. Field 676067, Rancho Santa Fe, 92067.
