Community Care Kits - The We In Me
Date: Sunday, November 14
Time: 9-1p
The Box parking lot
822 East 3rd Street
90013
You and your family are invited to join homeLA during National Homelessness Awareness Month for The We in Me: Community Care Kits.
Community Care Kits is a free family-oriented event that provides an opportunity for parents and their school-aged children to spend meaningful time together assembling hygiene kits for our neighbors experiencing homelessness. Our hope is that, in offering a network for care (where everyone helps each other), this event strengthens our capacity to embody empathy towards others, because empathy is an emotional pathway to action.
Community Care Kits is a free outdoor family event. It will be facilitated by homeLA collaborator, artist and activist, Emily Marchand and organizer and advocate, Caitlyn Montgomery. The two have been working together for years to bring more essential resources to Angelenos living in Skid Row by finding creative ways to energize their communities into supporting people experiencing homelessness.
Each kit costs $12 and we have reached our goal to raise $6000 to purchase enough kit items to prepare at 500 kits for distribution across multiple service organizations in Skid Row, including Downtown Women's Center, Brown Bag Lady, and Inner City Arts. It is thanks to the support of the communities of The Box, Emily Marchand, Caitlyn Montgomery and homeLA that you have this opportunity. You will find more information about the kits in the FAQ section below.
Admission to the event is free and requires a timed-entry reservation for either 9a, 10a, 11a or 12p.
So...Get a group together, register and participate in our Community Care Kit event!
To learn more, click here.
The We in Me: Community Care Kits is produced in partnership with The Box, artists Corazón del Sol and Emily Marchand, and advocate, Caitlyn Montgomery.
This programming is made possible through the generous donations of many socially-conscious and concerned Angelenos who donated over $6000 in two weeks for the purchase of kit items. This activity is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov. homeLA is fiscally sponsored by Fulcrum Arts.
