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Every year members of Baltimore’s homeless community die from hypothermia, due to exposure to severe winter temperatures. According to a recent study, 38 homeless people have frozen to death since 1998, 73 in the last ten years. The current homeless shelter system in Baltimore City is inadequate, and these statistics prompted the City to initiate the Code Blue Shelter, which opens during periods of extreme weather to provide temporary emergency relief to Baltimore’s homeless population. But this latest initiative has still proven to be insufficient as Baltimore shelters during the 2003 winter, the coldest in 104 years, were forced to turn people away on more than 15,000 occasions. Record cold temperatures between January 11 and January 16 took the lives of 10 people accross the Midwest and Northeast   That is why this year Project Locus is asking you to be generous in giving a donation of cash or sleeping bags to help provide for those who will be turned away from shelters on the coldest nights. Your support will help us to purchase and distribute sleeping bags, and we are currently working with Wal-Mart to secure the lowest price possible per bag.  A $25 donation will buy one zero-degree bag delivered to someone in need, but anything you can give would be greatly appreciated.  While we can’t build new homes or shelters for our city’s homeless this winter, a sleeping bag can provide warmth and shelter essential for survival, and can save a life. The sleeping bag you give will be someone's home this winter. Download the flyer by clicking the thumbnail below, and please show it to your friends and co-workers. Send cash donations to the address listed below, or apply easily and securely online through the link provided. Drop off donations of sleeping bags at the addresses below, or call us directly and we will come pick it up.  All donations are greatly appreciated and 100 percent tax deductible. Thank you for your support.

Sleeping Bag Drive for Baltimore's Homeless

Links to articles:

sleeping bag drive in Fredericksburg, VA, 2003
Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ghostface donates 1000 sleeping bags to New York City homeless, 2003
The Sleeping Bag Project
Portland, Oregon sleeping bag givaway in front of City Hall, 2003
freezing temperatures accross the Midwest and Northeast, January 2004

 

Please send donations to:

Project Locus
Donations
4428 Harding Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90066

DROP-BOX LOCATIONS:

Baltimore City Health Department
First Floor Lobby
210 Guilford Avenue

 

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