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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 8, 2017 at 1:57 am
Managed to raise enough dough to buy several dozen blankets and enough personal hygiene items to go around. We'll be canvassing areas I now have a lot of unsheltered people on Friday and Saturday early in the morning. I think we'll make up some brown bag meals as well.
I've been informally checking out Old Town early in the morning and sadly, I don't think it will be much work to give away what people have generously provided.
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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 8, 2017 at 2:18 am
I think this is great CD. I have a ton of fabric laying around. I can sew up a bunch of blankets and distribute them to the homeless in my area.
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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 10, 2017 at 3:37 pm
I just donated one package. Good luck.
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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 10, 2017 at 7:42 pm
Thanks alpha.
We're going out tomorrow morning early to distribute blankets and personal hygiene items.
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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 11, 2017 at 10:59 am
We went out at 5am this morning and distributed three dozen blankets and personal hygiene kits in about an hour.
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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 11, 2017 at 1:54 pm
Brown paper lunch bags with pb&j sandwich and an apple or banana might be another good thing to distribute.
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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 11, 2017 at 2:07 pm
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RE: I'm organizing a donation drive for the unsheltered homeless in my area
November 11, 2017 at 2:14 pm
Yeah, underwear and socks are one of the most frequent requests from the homeless shelter I help support. That and toilet paper. Another interesting specific request is for zip lock bags.
It's getting cold here and expect to see/hear about some "urgent" requests.
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