Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Members of a motorcycle group in the Los Angeles area deliver toys and other items for children to the Rose Again Foundation in Temecula, Sunday, Nov. 29. Rose Again Foundation is a nonprofit that helps meet the needs for foster children.
A garage is filled with a variety of toys and items for foster children during a donation from a motorcycle group who made the delivery personally from the Los Angeles area.
Members of a motorcycle group in the Los Angeles area deliver toys and other items for children to the Rose Again Foundation in Temecula.
People affiliated with the Rose Again Foundation hold signs of gratitude to the group who made the donation and delivery of items for foster children in Temecula.
Rhonda Reinke, CEO of Rose Again Foundation, thanks the group for their large donation of items for foster children in Temecula.
Members of a motorcycle group from the Los Angeles area gather for a photo after delivering a donation of toys and other items to the Rose Again Foundation in Temecula.
According to Jeremy Sauvao, the delivery of Christmas gifts for foster children to Rose Again Foundation is the culmination of a bigger purpose.
Roughly 20 members of Los Angeles area motorcycle groups with their families driving moving vans and cars rumbled into a Temecula neighborhood Sunday, Nov. 29, to deliver the gifts to the home of the nonprofit's CEO.
"It's two different cultures – Samoan and Tongan. So we're trying to push a positive vibe between the two cultures and get them riding together," Sauvao said. "We call it a Poly (Polynesian) movement. So, that started and then we wanted to start doing something for the kids.
"We all ride, and it's time-consuming, but our families come first. We just started looking for positive things to do for the kids," he said.
There were four Harley Davidson groups represented Sunday from all over the Los Angeles area.
"All mixed culture in different cities," Sauvao said. "Back in the day, you wouldn't think that we talk to each other just because of where we were raised, but now we're just trying to bring everybody together on Harleys."
Vehicle after vehicle backed into the driveway and unloaded boxes of toys, games and bicycles, all of which will be given to area foster youth and some may even be passed along to partner nonprofits in need.
"We are incredibly grateful for this," Rhonda Reinke, CEO of Rose Again Foundation, said. "This is a group that reached out to us for the first time this year. They're not even local and they heard about us through someone who volunteers for us on a regular basis. They got together, they brought down tons of gift cards, a check, and they filled my garage with bikes and toys and blankets and just some amazing things that we can turn around and bless foster children with.
"As we do every year, any time we are over blessed, we share them with other nonprofits in the community, kids that are in domestic violence situations, kids who are with single moms who are really struggling. This will not only help Rose Again Foundation this is going to help so many other locals well kids as well. We are incredibly grateful," Reinke said.
For more information on Rose Again Foundation, visit http://www.roseagainfoundation.org.
Jeff Pack can be reached by email at [email protected].
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