Tampa Adult Entertainment: Trinity Rotary steps up to the table
November 25, 2009NEW PORT RICHEY – Not all Florida children will sit with their families around a Thanksgiving table this month. Some of them will eat out of garbage cans.
November as National Runaway Prevention Month brings into focus the desperate plight of runaway and homeless children, so members with Rotary Club of Trinity wanted to help them.
Club members, led by Barry Poppel, came together to start the Cook ‘4′ Kids Program last week at the RAP House in New Port Richey, according to Becky Bennett with Pasco Kids First.
Some 1,200 runaways last year in a nine-county area found comfort and aid at the RAP House and other Youth and Family Alternatives facilities.
The majority of chronic runaways become victims first, Bennett pointed out, but when left on the street with no legitimate way to acquire food and shelter, they sometimes become part of street survival crimes, such as drug dealing and prostitution.