Help provide warmth on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Help Blanket the Region

Poverty is rarely more deadly than when the weather gets cold.  Can you help with the blanket drive on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day?  We will be open Monday from 9:00 am to 7:00pm for blanket donations. Or, if you live far away, send blankets, gift cards for Target, Bed, Bath, and Beyond, or the like - and we'll make sure they go to good use. 

We can provide warmth for all in our midst, no question about it, and we hope you can help.  Tell your neighbors, friends, family, co-workers, or anyone who can help.  Thousands and thousands of us are sleeping on cold floors and living outside all day and night - we gotta provide warmth, at the least.

Educate on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Below: A speach given by Martin Luther King, Jr. on March 14, 1968 at Grosse Pointe High School titled, "The Other America."

"There are two Americas. One America is beautiful for situation. In this America, millions of people have the milk of prosperity and the honey of equality flowing before them. This America is the habitat of millions of people who have food and material necessities for their bodies, culture and education for their minds, freedom and human dignity for their spirits. In this America children grow up in the sunlight of opportunity. But there is another America. This other America has a daily ugliness about it that transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair.  In this other America, thousands and thousands of people walk the streets in search for jobs that do not exist. In this other America, millions of people are forced to live in vermin-filled, distressing housing conditions where they do not have the privilege of having wall-to-wall carpeting, but all too often, they end up with wall-to-wall rats and roaches......."

Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave, Washington D.C. click on the image to learn more about Martin Luther King, Jr. roads in the U.S.		The area around Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave in the neighborhood of Anacostia, Washington, DC, has some of the highest childhood poverty rates in the nation, ranging from 31% to 68%, depending on the specific neighborhood.