L.A. Derby Dolls Teach Children of the Night Roller Skating, Empowerment During City-Wide Weekend of Volunteerism

On Saturday, May 14, the L.A. Derby Dolls hosted a Big Sunday Weekend skating clinic for Children of the Night. The three-hour workshop focused on teaching young men and women how to skate, while emphasizing the importance of teamwork and physical fitness as a means toward personal empowerment.

Children of the Night is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing and empowering children who have been forced into prostitution.  This is the third year that they have worked with L.A. Derby Dolls on Big Sunday. To learn more about Children of the Night, please visit http://www.childrenofthenight.org/.

Big Sunday is an annual spring weekend when thousands of people from Southern California, of all ages and all backgrounds, work together at hundreds of nonprofits, schools and other agencies that need their help. Big Sunday Weekend is one of the largest regional community service events in America. To learn more about Big Sunday and volunteer opportunities, please visit www.bigsunday.org.

After skating, community service is the most important thing that the L.A. Derby Dolls do.  The Dolls also recently partnered with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles when the L.A. Junior Derby Dolls and the San Diego Juvenile Dollinquents played a double-header fundraiser bout for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, raising more than $2,000.

Other recent community partnerships include the American Diabetes Association, Lambda Legal (civil rights for the LBGT community and those living with AIDS) and many more.