Markus Seidel was a journalist before starting Off Road Kids. In 1992, a documentary on street children led him to write the book Street Children in Germany: Destinies that Should Not Exist. The contacts Markus established with street children while doing research for the book developed into the first nationwide street social work system. At the same time, he expanded his knowledge and experience with Off Road Kids and implemented management knowledge into social work. Inventing the first virtual street social work station sofahopper.de, he successfully created a showcase about transforming social work along the digital revolution without destroying the existing structures. Today, 30 years later, Off Road Kids Stiftung social workers have successfully housed more than 10,000 street children and young homeless people and counseled tens of thousands facing existential threats.