Two dogs were dumped in my South LA yard the other day. Both un-neutered males are dog, cat, people and children friendly and seem to be around a year old.
These 2 little fur balls need a RESCUE! Please share them to anyone and everyone in the hopes that we can find a rescue or forever family. Thank you!
The truck is LOADED! Time to hit the streets of South Central LA & Skid Row, Los Angeles to give out pillows, blankets, sandwiches, fruit, water, dog & cat food, tents and tarps.
These are your donations at work! Please consider donating $5 dollars to help us feed the homeless and their animals. Thank you!
This event is specifically done to help Monday Night Mission to collect blankets, sleeping bags, socks and beanies. LA on Cloud9 will start collecting these items now and will deliver them to Monday Night Mission on March 17, 2014. Our group will get together and volunteer with Monday Night Mission to distribute these item at Skid Row for our homeless brothers and sisters.
** Please let LA on Cloud9 know if you have any of these items laying around; we will schedule a pick up or drop off. We have volunteers all over the Los Angeles area, as well as Long Beach, IE and the Valley***
**All Items can also be dropped off to Monday Night Mission**
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1500 in 20 days!
Angelinos,
As some of you may know, the City of LA has an emergency winter shelter program that runs from December 1st through March 15th. The objective of this program is to safeguard our homeless population from being exposed to low temperatures. The program provides shelter for approximately 1500 people.
As of the March 15, all of the 1500 individuals will have NO access to shelter, food, hygiene items nor clothing and blankets. Many of these folks will temporarily come to Skid Row until they can travel to different areas.
As light as the winter is in LA, the temperature still drops below 60 degrees at night, well until the middle of April. While this can be tolerable when you’re under a roof, sleeping under the stars on cold pavement is a whole different story.
Take into account that we also have a significantly high senior homeless population in LA; they often suffer from things like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, as well as other ailments. With little access to proper healthcare for these folks, sleeping in the cold can become deadly.
To aid our homeless brothers and sisters, who will be leaving the winter shelters, we will be delivering blankets to Skid Row on Monday, March 17th. We will also be delivering hygiene kits, as these folks will no longer have proper access to bathrooms.
We need your help!
Any blankets, sleeping bags, socks, beanies, either new or lightly used- but clean, would greatly help these folks survive until the conditions get warmer. Hygiene kits or individual items such as soap, small bottles of moisturizer, shampoo, hand sanitizer, razors, female hygiene products, and wet naps would be useful for people to not only stay clean, but to keep up their self-esteem.
Please email us if you have any of these items to donate. Anything and everything helps!
Thank you,
Mel Tillekeratne
Monday Night Mission
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
The majority of the homeless community don’t have the bare necessities and are financially able to buy hygienic products.
LAC9 wants to provide these items to those in need. We want to be able to hand out a Hygiene Care Package to our brothers and sisters on the streets of South Los Angeles and Skid Row, Los Angeles.
Items needed:
-Toilet Paper Rolls
-Toothpaste
-Toothbrushes
-Body cleansing wipes
-Lip Balm / Chap Stick / Carmex / Blistex
-Body Wash, Liquid Soap, Facial Cleanser
-Combs / Brushes / Bobby Pins (in original packaging, please)
-Deodorant (travel size)
-Shaving Cream in Tubes / Shaving Soap (No CANS of Shaving -Cream!)
-Hand & Body Lotion / Moisturizer (travel size)
-Sunblock, SPF 45, Zinc, Vitamin E, Aloe Vera Gel
-Bug Spray / DEET / Skin-So-Soft
-Mouthwash (travel size)
-Breath Mints / Breath Strips
-Wash Cloths
-Nail Files / Emery Boards / Nail Clippers
-Feminine Hygiene Products
You can also DONATE to help with the purchasing of items. We will make Hygiene Bags and hand them out on the streets of South Los Angeles and Skid Row. You can also drop off donations; please contact Claudia Perez at (323) 812-9836. Thank you!
A few days of heavy rain might not seem so bad, until you don’t have a roof over your head and are outside, uncovered, and truly in the storm. LAC9 distributed tents & tarps to the homeless people of Skid Row, as well as food & water.
Read article HERE.
Read article HERE.
A group of Hair Stylist would like to donate their skills and compassion by giving haircuts to as many homeless people as possible on Sunday, February 23rd, 2014.
Please join us while we host our very 1st Hair Cut Event! Come and see the transformation and the magic a hair cut can give someone who hasn’t had one in so long!
We are in need of supplies for this event. If you are able to donate any of the items listed below, it would make this event a total success:
-Barber combs
-Disposable drapes
-Spray bottles
-Paddle brushes
-Baby Powder/ dusting brushes
-Hair accessories for women
-Gel or Hair Spray
-Long, rectangular mirrors
-Clippers
If you would like to contribute to this event, please contact Claudia at (323) 812-9836. We definitely need the help.
Thank you!
Old shoes, new shoes, good shoes, bad shoes… any SHOES! We all need them, we all want them and we all must have them. Can you imagine not owning even one pair?
Unfortunately, so many DON’T have shoes, so they walk around barefoot and in pain. A Good friend of mine, Blanca Villalpando, sent me a message about her concerns of a few homeless men she sees daily by her office in Downtown LA. She mentioned donating a few pairs of shoes to them so they wouldn’t have to walk barefoot in this freezing weather! Thanks to her, LAC9 will host ” Walk with Shoes on LA Streets.” We will collect as many shoes as possible and give them all out in Downtown LA (Skid Row, Los Angeles).
If you have any old shoes laying around that you don’t need any more, please consider donating them by giving them to someone in need! We will be collecting shoes all throughout December and January. On February 1st, we will go down to Skid-Row and host a shoe drive. Everyone is welcome to volunteer- your help is much appreciated!
