Streets Team Keeps Rollin’
It has been a busy summer for The Streets Don’t Love You Back Movement—not
only are they continuing to work with the homeless on the first Sunday of each
month, they had another successful backpack drive, helping hundreds of local kids
before they started their first day of school. In addition, TSDLYB has started a drug
and alcohol intervention program that already has graduated 12 individuals so
far. According to Boyd, 155 people have already enrolled through various halfway
houses and in over 21 prisons across the country. In the next year, they are hoping
to bring the program to the City of Maricopa and to Pinal County.
TSDLYB team at the American Family Insurance Office
handing out 400 backpacks to local students
“We continue to move forward,” said Rob Boyd, founder of The Streets Don’t Love
You Back Movement.
Boyd and his wife, Lucinda also travelled to Detroit this summer to shoot the documentary based on Rob’s book of the same name.
“Going back home to Detroit, filming, bought back a lot of bad memories and it also made me see how far God has brought me in my
life,” Boyd said, “not only to help myself but to help educate our youth and others to a better life. I thank God for my mother and my
wife for believing in me, and I give God all the glory.”
If that isn’t enough on the plate, TSDLYB is dropping their latest mixtape on
August 22, and Volume 6 on September 25.
A New Hope, Backpack Supply Drive for the Homeless
Give Love Back, the offshoot of The Streets Don’t Love You Back, and aimed at engaging college and high school kids in the community, just got going and is well on
the way of achieving the first time goals of helping those less fortunate. MHS Class
of 2014 alumni and NAU student, Rosie Naranjo has been out and about this summer collecting donations to fill a hundred backpacks with supplies for the homeless.
A Facebook Page was started for the mission called, A New Hope, documenting the
donations by individuals and businesses, with a goal of raising a $1,000. A car wash
is scheduled at AutoZone on August 22. First big donation came from Rick and Lisa
Luna of Profex Enviromental Management and Pest Control. Other local businesses
like O’Shays, Copa Craze, Sports and Cuts, Hart Computer Solutions, and K’Bella
Salon and Spa all donated