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**DEADLINE IS June 15, 2014**

Vote HERE:  http://fb-6679894.strutta.com/entry/7046732

If you vote for LAC9, the $1,000 will help reach our goal of purchasing 100 sleeping bags and 100 camping tents to distribute to those persons and their pets, who are sleeping on the streets and sidewalks.

LA on Cloud9 holds monthly food and clothing giveaways at Skid Row, MacArthur Park and Martin Luther King Park. On a regular -sometimes daily- basis, the Cloud9 team also distributes all supplies and food received, while on foot, visiting known and not so known sites where homeless people reside. The resources they provide include applying medical flea treatment to pets, providing food for both pets and humans, hygiene items such as toothpaste and toilet paper, and distributing blankets and clothing. Sometimes during these visits people living on streets will surrender their pets to LA on Cloud9 volunteers and then Cloud9 partners with animal rescue groups to help those pets get placed with persons in good loving homes.

LA on Cloud9 is small but growing, making a tremendous positive impact in the homeless community and donates back all the resources and funds received. They also have a teen volunteer group that goes out with chaperones to help with food and clothing distribution as well. This outreach with the youth is helping develop these young teens and transform them into future adults that will be caring, responsible, and giving back to their Community.

HURRY, WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL JUNE 15th TO GET THE MOST VOTES.

Please vote– WE NEED YOUR HELP!

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Mar, 2014

Easter Sunday (4/20/14)

  Events

Hey, everyone!  Come and volunteer at Martin Luther King Jr Park on Sunday (April 20th @10am) in South Los Angeles to feed the homeless and the less fortunate. This is our Monthly Food & Clothes giveaway, so we also need help with distribution of donations. Be there by 10 am- we will stay UNTIL EVERYTHING IS GONE (usually about 2-4 hours).  Please try and bring a tray of food or drinks so that we can make sure there is enough for everyone.

Also,

~~We feed the Homeless Dogs & Cats at Martin Luther King Jr Park. If you would like to Donate Dog food or Cat food, please bring some to the Event~~

Please text Claudia (323) 812-9836 or Kari (310) 408-2095 with YOUR NAME and that you will be there April 20th and DON’T FORGET to mention the dish(es) or the items you can bring. THE MORE, THE BETTER!

For those that cant make it, we are also accepting donations. These items are truly needed!

*Childrens, womens and mens clothing.
*Shoes, Sandals
*Bras, Socks, Underwear
*Blankets, Sheets, Towels, Pillows
*Water, Soda, Juice
*Toys, Books, Dictionaries, Pens, Pencils, etc.
*Food: Canned Goods, Non Perishable items, Snacks
*Pads, Tampons, Toilet Paper, Laundry Soap
*Toothpaste, Tooth Brushes, Razors, Deodorant, Combs etc.

*Dog & Cat food, blankets and toys.

ANYTHING, new or used can be recycled with purpose! Broken? Don’t throw it away- donate it!

Needed items can be found on our Walmart ‘Wish List’.

Make a monetary donation towards the Easter Sunday event here.

**Cant make it this month? Don’t worry, we will be hosting these events every 3rd Sunday of each month. So save your donations! 🙂 “Do good, Receive good.”

MLK JR PARK: 3900 Western Ave., Los Angeles, California 90062

**Los Angeles donation pick up/drop off Claudia (323) 812-9836

**Downey/surrounding cities donation pick up/drop off Dessirae (562) 652-9329

**Baldwin Park/surrounding cities donation pick up/drop off Angie (626) 478-4330

On Saturday, March 14, 2014,, from 9am-11am, LAC9 will get together with Coast Communities, Skid Row Cleanup to help clean up Downtown LA.

Where:  The SW corner of 5th Street and Crocker Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013.

Parking:  Free street parking on 4th, 6th and 7th St, east of their intersections with San Pedro St.

Attire:  Wear clothing that covers the entire body and waterproof shoes. Hats and sunglasses are recommended

Their Website: http://www.skidrowcleanup.com

You may contact Skidrow Cleanup directly at  (213) 293-6933  or  

or contact LAC9 at  (323) 812-9836 or  

***Skid Row Cleanup only has enough equipment for 10 people.  I recommend we bring some equipment, such as brooms and trash bags***

The whole session is about 2 hours and we’ll finish around 11am. There is plenty of free parking on 4th street, east of its intersection with San Pedro street. You can park there all day. Then you walk 1 block South to our location by 5th & Crocker.

Let me know if you need more info. Talk to you soon

**PLEASE JOIN US for a couple hours… be a part of this awesome group of generous individuals that have the same compassion in helping the community**

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