Can We Give President Obama 1000 Or More?

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On Saturday, October 10, 2009, people here and there celebrated an event called Youth Outreach Day, a brainchild of Invisible Youth Network. Some examples of events that took place on that day and/or during the surrounding days are: A cook-out for street kids in San Diego that was not only fun for them and put food in their stomachs but, also, drew the attention of various people who offered to help--and even house--them. A 19 year old man from Canada--along with several street youth--who made a run that raised enough money to split between several of the street kids of Toronto and Invisible Youth Network's headquarters in San Diego (where there are an estimated 4000 youth living outdoors year round after leaving unhealthy living conditions from as far away as the East Coast). As this was also Thanksgiving Weekend for Canadians, he took several street youth out for Thanksgiving dinner. A middle-aged homemaker from Western Kentucky making and selling crafts to raise money for IYN. She also wrote a letter to President Obama about the problem of homeless youth. An Indianapolis couple preparing sack lunches to hand out to homeless youth, along with pamphlets showing them where they could go to receive help. Youth Outreach Day is a kind of grass roots movement that we hope will be recognized as an international event by the time that another second Saturday in October comes around, so we have drafted a petition that will be sent to President Obama as soon as if has a minimum of 1000 signatures. Anybody interested in taking a look at this petition can go here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/enact-youth-outreach-day Hopefully, you will find it not only worth signing but, also, sharing with others. What we want is for the second Saturday of every October to be officially recognized as Youth Outreach Day. We aren't asking for another paid holiday. We're just asking that Youth Outreach Day becomes a recognized special day just like Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, etc. so that activities will be planned for this occasion all over the world! While what we actually want is for the children, teens, and young adults who are falling through society's cracks to be reached out to every single day of the year, Youth Outreach Day (or YO-Day, for short) would be a time when people from all over the world would be thinking about this need in a special way and simultaneously having fundraisers (e.g. thons, car washes, bake sales, concerts); activities for homeless and/or otherwise at-risk youth (e.g. cook-outs, job fairs, shopping sprees); and other worthwhile activities going on with the theme of Youth Outreach. Here are some other links that might be of interest to you. In the order of which they're presented, they are IYN's main website, my IYN-related blog, and an article I wrote about these young people who need us so much. [b]http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net http://mhhj.blogspot.com/ http://www.epinions.com/content_5358657668[/b] Do you believe that we can collect at least 1000 signatures to our petition? Would you like to help us try? Please share your thoughts below--and, again, don't forget to check out the provided links...