Metro Kidz International is a non-profit organization that reaches out to children and families. In 1992 Metro Kidz Los Angeles began as an outreach to the disadvantaged children of Watts, California. Today Metro Kidz reaches hundreds of children every week. Metro Kidz is an initiative that has worked in the most difficult neighborhoods Los Angeles, South Bay, Peru and various North and South American cities.
We help put that purpose in action, encouraging and following up with each child during our weekly visitation programs – programs that are consistent and dependable. Metro Kidz ministry team members make a weekly visitation to each child’s home, getting to know the family and understanding the dynamics of each child’s situation. The Visitation program is a tool to discover the child or family’s additional needs and an opportunity to pray for those needs and find resources to help meet those needs. That translates into visiting children in a hundred homes a week in Los Angeles alone, encouraging their growth in faith and life.
We are dedicated to instilling universally acceptable values in children whose harsh personal environment and volatile neighborhoods render them at great risk of embracing a value system totally contrary to civil society. The compassionate lifestyle we promote, the life skills we teach and the basic principles we instill, are not only an invaluable asset to individual children, but also essential to the future of civil society itself.
Board Members
Graciela Toriz
Craig Jones
Debbie Osberg-Ruiz
Teresa Thomas
Aida Gonzales