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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

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.

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!

Thanksgiving Blessing: O God, we thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the ocean and streams, for the towering hills and the whispering wind, for the trees and green grass.

We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of fields of golden wheat, and taste autumn’s fruit, rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the breath of spring flowers.

Grant us a heart opened wide to all this beauty; and save us from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

For each new dawn is filled with infinite possibilities for new beginnings and new discoveries. Life is constantly changing and renewing itself. In this new day of new beginnings with God, all things are possible. We are restored and renewed in a joyous awakening to the wonder that our lives are and, yet, can be.

Amen – (Walter Rauschenbusch)

Join us for a Thanksgiving Lunch on November 28th 2013 from 10am until 2 pm

LAC9 will host a Thanksgiving Lunch for everyone; our Homeless Community and the less fortunate! There is no reason why you shouldn’t have a great Thanksgiving Day meal.

If you can donate, we are in need of plates, forks, spoons and napkins. Thank you!