donations for homeless youth

[snugglekitty]

I just got back from making a donation to Youth On Fire, a program serving homeless youth in the Boston area.

Their current most urgent needs are for blankets, longjohns, games, and backpacks.
I know we have a lot of gamers in the community - please consider if you have any games that you're not using, or whether you could afford to contribute, perhaps, some Cheap-Ass Games bought new. Also consider whether you have used blankets lurking in your closet that you don't need.

Please consider helping them out. Homeless youth are way underserved in our community, and generally very undeserving. Winter is a particularly difficult time for them, since by law they cannot get housing in homeless shelters, and as you may have noticed, Boston winters are COLD! (Federal law says that minors should be in the care of their parents or guardians, which is why they can't stay in homeless shelters.)



Youth on Fire accepts donations at the Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church between ten and twelve the days their program is open. That's Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The church is located on Mass Ave on the Porter Square side of Harvard Square. It's the one with the two-tone bricks (beige and regular-brick colored).

If anyone has things to donate but is unable to bring them to the program in the morning, I would be happy to do the drop-off honors if you get them to me. If a lot of people want this I could coordinate a Diesel pick-up.



If you're interested in finding out more about the program and other ways you can help, check out their website at http://www.ccaa.org/programs/yof.htm

We now return you to your regularly schedule programming.

Comments

[cathijosephine.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fabulous excuse to take apart old sweaters and turn them into blankets! The crochet community has recently posted several quick and easy afghan patterns. I'll try to guess at the patterns, but I may call you with questions about them. I think I'll tackle this project this weekend. Thanks for the info!

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Great idea! I'd love to help with patterns or in any other way I can. In fact, it would be fun to join you this weekend if you're interested in having a charity crochet buddy. I'm free all Sunday.

[cathijosephine.livejournal.com]

Cool! I will probably be doing this late morning/early afternoon on Saturday since Aimee's going to be over Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. If, however, we're sitting around and crocheting, I'll definitely give you a holler!

[dalbino83.livejournal.com]

You might consider adding being_homeless to your reading list; she's very active with Youth on Fire, and she organized a backpack donation back in December. I think she ended up filling 30 backpacks with essentials; it was really awesome.