RE-Generation

Re-Generation is charity that was started by the company Virgin Mobile and is comprised of a group of partners including Green Chimneys, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Sasha Bruce Youthwork, and Virgin Unite. The mission when beginning the charity was to, as they put it, “A generation helping its own”. The charity focuses on young people within the United States that due to certain circumstances may have become or are currently homeless. Whether they have become homeless do to natural disasters, family troubles, or financial struggles; the occurrences are out of their power.  Re-Generation seeks to ensure that those young people have a chance and the means to complete school and stay away from the streets, begging, drugs, and prostitution. This charity is specific to young homeless people or kiss because they have different needs than homeless adults, especially being as they have not had a chance to live their lives yet. So, Virgin Mobile and Virgin Unite created this charity to change this. They bring together youth with those that seek to help the homeless youth by bringing together with organizations that would like to do the same. This they believe will empower youth. Virgin Mobile also connects the charity with texting, volunteering, donating, and making phone downloads. Since 2009 the outpouring of support for Virgin Mobile FreeFest has provided 75,000 hours of community service have been donated to homeless youth, nearly $800,000 raised for homeless youth charities, nearly 25,000 outreach kits created for kids on the street and 1000 pairs of shoes were donated by Converse to youth homelessness all because of Re-Generation.

For more information see the Re-Generation website:

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/virgin-mobile-life/regeneration-past-about