Just For Kidz

Just For Kidz (JFK) is a youth-run national 501c(3) nonprofit organization with the goal of supporting underprivileged children worldwide through grassroots service and advocacy while empowering and inspiring the next generation of youth to become active and engaged global citizens and leaders. While there are many youth-run organizations, our approach is unique in the way that we partner with local underserved community children's organizations such as orphanages, schools, and shelter homes in various parts of the world and work and collaborate with them to facilitate long-term, impactful change for young people. Our Mission involves 3 Main Principles, the Three Es. Equitability: We strive for equal opportunities for all children. Enrichment: We hope to enrich the lives of many youth here and abroad by both providing direct services and a platform to have their voice heard while raising awareness about key issues facing young people everywhere. Empowerment: We work to empower the next generation of global leaders through education, service, and activism. Through our projects, we partner with under-recognized child-serving organizations abroad and fundraise or collect for major specific needs that create a long-term impact in the lives of children internationally. Thus far, we have fundraised to complete projects in India and Haiti. Over the past two years, we have been working to build a secondary school classroom (8th-12th grade) for over 700 orphans and poor children at Good Hope Orphanage in Arusha, Tanzania. Domestically, our programs are long-term recurring projects specifically geared towards addressing children's needs in the United States. Stack the Snacks is our first and newly launched program aimed at addressing youth food insecurity concerns by building in-classroom food pantries in America's poorest elementary schools. Our goal is to bring the program to St. Louis and New York City in 2018, and spread it to all major cities as we grow.