L.I.V.E. Outreach wants to hit the road and help young Detroiters
The organization is seeking funding to help support its mobile unit to meet local youth where they are.
L.I.V.E. Outreach Founder Malika Williams stands in front of what will become the organization's mobile support unit.
There are challenges young people and their families are facing daily — often invisible ones. And no matter how you look at it, the same conditions don’t apply across the board.
L.I.V.E. Outreach is a community organization working to empower Detroit youth to be the best versions of themselves. Right now, the group is on the hunt for funding to support its efforts to launch a mobile unit that will bring much needed support to young people and their families in the city.
The organization’s founder, Malika Williams, joined The Metro last week to discuss the project.
She says they have already begun the process of retrofitting a 14-person bus into a mobile unit with the help of University of Detroit Mercy, which will provide everything from fresh fruit and toiletries to books, clothing and other household items residents may need.
“The transportation barrier has been another [problem] for our kids and our families,” she said. “So we want to kind of be able to pull up, you know, even if it’s at the park or, you know, at a school, at a library, where we know the families are. That way it wouldn’t limit us and also that will put us where our overhead is low.”
For more information about L.I.V.E Outreach, visit theliveoutreach.org.
