Cardboard Community
My community participation event is Cardboard Nation in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, sponsored by Warm Blessings, Inc. Cardboard Nation is an annual community event designed to encourage people to raise money to help the homeless population. This year $12,000 was collected in one evening.
Homelessness Today
Experiencing homelessness, defined by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, is sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program. As the United States is recovering from the Great Recession, our homeless population from 2013 to 2014 is on the decline. In their 2015 study, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, found that national rate of homelessness fell to 18.3 homeless people per …show more content…
They are the chief support, in my community, to the plight of the homeless. The ministry was founded by John and Kathleen Chadbourne and incorporated in 2005 (www.warmblessingsinc.com). In addition to providing meals for the underprivileged population in their community, Warm Blessings also provides meal delivery to seniors who are shut-in or frail, food bags to people in crisis, free use of showers and washers/dryers to those who need them, free mini physicals provided by the local hospital’s mobile unit, free haircuts twice a month, tutoring and free referral to seniors on Medicare for supplemental insurance coverage (Warm Blessings, Inc., …show more content…
I was sponsored by my husband and he loved the idea and came along, sponsored by his parents (who are regular volunteers at Warm Blessings). The night was definitely a night to remember. We were furnished boxes by Warm Blessings, Inc. Nice boxes! Boxes that fit washers, ranges and refrigerators, not boxes that someone would typically find in a dumpster. We were furnished with a soup line that may be easily accessible to the homeless but ours was really close and also over-stocked. We also had a live band providing music and atmosphere. God even cooperated with Mother Nature to provide a cool but not cold evening with no rain or snow or even wind in
My community participation event is Cardboard Nation in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, sponsored by Warm Blessings, Inc. Cardboard Nation is an annual community event designed to encourage people to raise money to help the homeless population. This year $12,000 was collected in one evening.
Homelessness Today
Experiencing homelessness, defined by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, is sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program. As the United States is recovering from the Great Recession, our homeless population from 2013 to 2014 is on the decline. In their 2015 study, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, found that national rate of homelessness fell to 18.3 homeless people per …show more content…
They are the chief support, in my community, to the plight of the homeless. The ministry was founded by John and Kathleen Chadbourne and incorporated in 2005 (www.warmblessingsinc.com). In addition to providing meals for the underprivileged population in their community, Warm Blessings also provides meal delivery to seniors who are shut-in or frail, food bags to people in crisis, free use of showers and washers/dryers to those who need them, free mini physicals provided by the local hospital’s mobile unit, free haircuts twice a month, tutoring and free referral to seniors on Medicare for supplemental insurance coverage (Warm Blessings, Inc., …show more content…
I was sponsored by my husband and he loved the idea and came along, sponsored by his parents (who are regular volunteers at Warm Blessings). The night was definitely a night to remember. We were furnished boxes by Warm Blessings, Inc. Nice boxes! Boxes that fit washers, ranges and refrigerators, not boxes that someone would typically find in a dumpster. We were furnished with a soup line that may be easily accessible to the homeless but ours was really close and also over-stocked. We also had a live band providing music and atmosphere. God even cooperated with Mother Nature to provide a cool but not cold evening with no rain or snow or even wind in