Playhouse for Children

This summer brings a terrific opportunity to score one for the home team – a team made up of our community’s neglected children and homeless families, a team that needs your help more than ever.   This opportunity also features another team, San Diego’s own Padres, and a unique and fully functional Playhouse built for the ultimate Padres fan.

Pardee Homes has joined HomeAid San Diego and the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation to create the Padres Playhouse, a 10’WX10’DX10’H mini-home that includes a flat screen television, baseball glove chair and baseball ottoman, "gym locker" furniture, radio/CD player, a small study/seating nook with baseball theme pillows, and buckets of balls. The Playhouse will be on display at PETCO Park for 13 home games between August 25 and September 14, 2008. 

The Playhouse can also be viewed through an online auction where Padre’s fans at the games and interested buyers can bid on the Playhouse. The online auction will be complete at the end of October when we will announce the lucky winner of this one-of-a-kind Padre’s treasure.  To participate in the auction visit  http://capfsd.kintera.org/playhouse

Homelessness is epidemic in San Diego. An estimated 10,000-15,000 people are without a home on any given night in our county. Nearly one-third of foster children become homeless in the 12-months after they turn 18 years old.  HomeAid San Diego and the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation have a strong partnership working to change this, to improve our community for all of our citizens, including those who are currently homeless and the abused and neglected children who ended up in foster care through no fault of their own.

The Child Abuse Foundation educates and advocates on behalf of the 10,000 children (annually) in San Diego who cannot live safely at home, while working to prevent abuse from affecting even more children.  CAPF gives them the tools, opportunities and guidance they need to address the abuse they have suffered and grow into healthy, happy and successful adult members of our community, breaking the cycle of child abuse.

Help us help the children by bidding on the playhouse or donating to the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation.