Photocharity To Be Featured In Sunday Union-Tribune

George Varga, Pop Music Critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has written a feature story on the efforts of Photocharity, a local non-profit dedicated solely to helping get homeless youth off the streets and back to happy, productive lives.

(PRWEB) July 24, 2005 -- George Varga, Pop Music Critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has written a feature story on the efforts of Photocharity, a local non-profit dedicated solely to helping get homeless youth off the streets and back to happy, productive lives.

The story will appear in the Sunday, July 24 edition of the newspaper. This is the latest of several articles Varga has written in the past several years about Photocharity's volunteer fundraising efforts, with proceeds benefiting The Storefront, San Diego's only emergency shelter for teens.

Every day, some 2,000 youth are homeless on the streets of San Diego.

Varga's article will highlight this community-wide problem and what Photocharity, in partnership with The Storefront and its parent organization, San Diego Youth and Community Services, has been doing to raise awareness and funds to help these kids.

The story will also detail this partnership's efforts to establish a new long-term facility, the Photocharity House, to provide a true home to wayward teens to stay at until they are 18-years-old.

"George Varga and the Union-Tribune have been extremely supportive of our efforts since the early days," said Photocharity founder and President Jeffrey Sitcov. "George has been a tremendous help in creating awareness of this critical cause in our community.
We are so appreciative of the exposure he and the Union-Tribune have provided."

Photocharity has raised money exclusively through the work of volunteers, including community members, corporate sponsors, and major-label recording artists who have either donated their performances to Photocharity's Concert of Hope" benefits, or who have signed musical instruments and other memorabilia which are sold to raise funds, including Elton John, Billy Joel, BB King, Chris Isaac, Steve Winwood and several more.

About Photocharity:
Photocharity is a San Diego-based, non-profit (501-c3) organization founded by
Jeffrey Sitcov in July of 2000. Photocharity's mission is to save homeless youth globally, one community at a time. The organization started its efforts in San Diego, raising money for the Storefront homeless teen shelter, the only such shelter in the community. In early 2006, the organization is expanding its efforts to San Francisco, and will also start to build the Photocharity House, a long-term residence for homeless youth in San Diego.
The organization has so far gathered over a half-million dollars in this effort. Photocharity raises money through corporate sponsorships, planned giving, benefit concerts, and the sale of memorabilia. More information about Photocharity and the Storefront can be found at www.photocharity.org.

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