Dear CIAO family,

On behalf of David, Uyoung and I, StandUp for Kids - Detroit would like to thank you most sincerely for the thoughtful gifts we received from CIAO for the holiday!  We deeply appreciate the partnering relationship that we share with your organization and all that you do to support, compliment and assist our efforts with youth in the community!  Your commitment to kids is exemplified through your dedication to collaboration and the "it takes a village" approach that you embrace.  Together, we are changing lives!  Even when the days seem the roughest, don't ever stop believing in the great work you do and the difference you make!

Yours looking forward with confidence and hope,

Jess Newman, Co-Executive Director

StandUp For Kids - Detroit

Physical Office: 1641 Porter, Detroit, MI 48216-1935

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 11, Royal Oak, MI 48067

Mobile Outreach Line: 888-365-4KID

Administrative Line: 313-516-2763

Fax: 313-628-2275

www.standupforkids.org

www.myspace.com/standupforkidsdetroit

" A child's foot doesn't know it's a foot yet And it wants to be a butterfly or an apple

But then the rocks and pieces of glass, the streets, the stairways and the roads of hard earth

keep teaching the foot that it can't fly,that it can't be a round fruit on a branch."

- Pablo Neruda, Poet

BELIEVE THEY CAN FLY! BE THE MESSAGE!