Help Chicago's West Side Youth and Families Travel Abroad and See the World

CHICAGO, October 31, 2019 (Newswire.com) - ​​Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures (CAYTA), a certified 501(C)(3) nonprofit, is hosting a party on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, at Gone Again Travel & Tours, 5940 W. Chicago Ave., in Chicago’s Austin community. This event will serve as the kickoff for next year’s fundraiser “Austin Cruising Together.” All proceeds from the party and next year’s fundraising cruise will be used to help CAYTA send area youth and families abroad to tour and experience our homeland: Ghana, West Africa.

“Austin Cruising Together” is a mega five-day event that will take place from Aug. 6-10, 2020. The cruise, which is sponsored by Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, The Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Center, and Comfort Inn & Suites Daytona Beach Oceanfront, combines a land and sea adventure whose purpose is to be an expanded family reunion and meet-and-greet for all Austin residents, their family, friends, neighbors, CAYTA sponsors and Gone Again Travel & Tours customers. Families, churches and organizations citywide interested in travel are invited to celebrate and learn more. Free and open to all ages. Light refreshments will be served.

DATE: Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019
TIME: 12 PM to 6 PM
ADDRESS: 5940 W. Chicago Ave.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

1 PM to 2 PM | 4 PM to 5 PM​: Join CAYTA founder Crystal Dyer and the CAYTA team to learn about our impactful story, history, and travels around the world

2 PM to 6 PM​: Experience live blues with Larry Taylor and the Soul Blues Healers

Donations will be accepted at the fundraiser and may be mailed to CAYTA headquarters: Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures, NFP (CAYTA), 5940 W Chicago Ave., Ste. B, Chicago, IL 60651 or submitted on our homepage: www.caytaworld.org.

About CAYTA

Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures (CAYTA) is the brainchild of Austin’s own Crystal Dyer. Crystal has been a travel agent for more than two decades, helping her clients develop affordable vacation packages anywhere in the world with the best airfare, hotels and tours, with convenient payment plans. In 2015, after losing her grandson Devin Dyer to gun violence in Chicago, she was inspired to find a way to reach Austin youth and founded CAYTA.

Every year, CAYTA takes local youth, ages 14-24, on field trips to local museums and cultural events to help them understand their true connections with worldwide cultures right here in Chicago. CAYTA also supports justice-involved-youth within the Juvenile Detention Center’s “Adopt-a-Pod Program.” For those youth departing from the Juvenile Detention Center, CAYTA provides wraparound services, educational referrals, and volunteerism opportunities.

In 2018, CAYTA made its first journey to Ghana, West Africa, with local youth. In April 2020, CAYTA will partner with State Representative La Shawn K. Ford in hosting a “Westside Mandela South Africa Journey.” Details are at www.goneagaintravel.com.