How Do You Help A Homeless Shelter?
While homeless shelters in large cities are all about helping homeless people, the shelters themselves are always in need of help. For these institutions to continue operating, they must have continuous support from various sources. There are a variety of ways almost anyone can help. Offer, under the auspices of your church or club or other organization, to provide one meal a month. This means planning a menu, buying the groceries, cooking the meal, serving it to the residents, and cleaning up. Someone like a volunteer coordinator will work out the details with your group. Offer to help with maintenance and repairs. Get your friends together to spend a weekend repainting a day room in a shelter or scrubbing and waxing all the floors. Custodians at shelters are almost always overworked, and some things just don’t get proper attention. Offer to tutor (or find people to tutor) students of all ages. Many shelters provide housing for homeless families. Because of the transient nature of mos
