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Surprised by the pervasiveness of domestic violence against teenagers in the U.S., Ding in 1996 founded Friends and Shelter for Teens (FAST), the nation's first teen-founded and teen-run domestic violence prevention program...
...result was the 1997 founding of Talent the Agency, whose mission is to help fund "the new generation" of FAST and Lu's Fashion for Shelter...
...around then that Ding happened to meet Cuong Lu, a professional model and actor who had founded Fashion for Shelter, a non-profit organization that raised money at fashion shows to support a shelter for battered Asian women...
...Jeff Probst, of VH-1's "Rock & Roll Jeopardy," will serve as the host of this island odyssey, whose motto is "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast." In mid-March, sixteen castaways (eight men, eight women) were dropped on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. They must build their own shelter and gather their own food. They are allowed only one "non-survivor tool" from home, like a picture or a hairbrush, but nothing else. They will have no contact with the outside world...
...report listed a score of recommendations, many of which have since been implemented, including increases in the capacity of the Albany Street shelter...