What is the Dream Center?

For several weeks we have been publicly talking about this Dream Center that Rock for Hunger wants to open this year. You may be thinking it sounds like a great place, but what is it all about?

The Problem: Most adults and children suffering from homelessness, poverty, and even lower middle class struggle with meeting their basic needs, and focus the majority of their day worrying about what they will eat, where they will sleep, what they will wear, and how will the get to work? Most of these individuals loose focus and/or motivation on their dreams and establishing a successful career. There are over 8,5000 homeless individuals in Central Florida and 1 out of 5 individuals in Central Florida are living below poverty line or right at poverty line and are not able to make ends meet. Of those over 75,000 are children.

The Mission: The Rock for Hunger Dream Center will be a place where individuals from the community can come and work towards fulfilling their dreams again. It’s a place where individuals can learn how to manage their finances, build resumes, develop interview skills, music & art lessons, entrepreneurial training, and more while their basic needs of food and clothing are met at no charge.

The Vision: Building this first Dream Center as a model for many more to come and give a helping hand to individuals to overcome homelessness and poverty. The Dream Center is about building a support system for the needy.

Why? In a land of many opportunities and a land of plenty, everyone has the right to live their dreams without having to suffer from homelessness and poverty. One of the biggest obstacles of overcoming this social issue is due to lack of a support system. By building a support system of continued education, mentorships, moral and spiritual support, we will end homelessness and poverty one individual at a time through our Dream Center and partnering with organizations who provide other services (such as mental help, health care, substance abuse, etc) , building a united community.

Fundraising Goal: $100,000

Immediate Needs:
- Funds
- Fundraisers
- Volunteers
- Creative minds

Check back for a weekly update and more needs for the Rock for Hunger Dream Center. We found a beautiful property we are looking at tomorrow.

Make a contribution today!

Contact: chris@rockforhunger.org.

Rock for Hunger
P.O. Box 771321
Orlando, FL 32877

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” - Mother Teresa (thanks Claire for this quote! Fits perfect)