Covid Response - Winter Village Support

In Response to COVID-19 and Winter 2020, we are partnering with community organizations, fellowships and churches to provide temporary housing to individuals experiencing homelessness.

We are starting by raising funds to increase the size of our micro-shelters. The COVID-Response mandate to "Shelter in Place" during the Winter Climate. Our goal is to start by replacing existing tents in a Baltimore City urban garden with more reliable safe and sturdy housing. This partnership has been transformational during COVID, this once vacant lot has been an urban garden for some time, but now is a home to community members, and a safe gathering space for all. 

Partners: 

Our partners are organizations whose fellowship of people experiencing homelessness, those with lived experiences of homelessness, people who are food and housing insecure, people who use drugs and people in recovery, those living with addiction, disability, or mental illness, along with their friends and supporters in Baltimore. 

Veterans Event and Shelter Sponsorship with St. John’s Ministry, who is honored to lift up all veterans and their families.  For Veterans Day 2020 we gathered outside our historic chapel and ring the bell 11 times. Our speaker was a veteran who served as a nurse in the Vietnam War. LaQuida Chancey, Founder and Director of SmalltimoreHomes.org, introduced the organization and the mission. There is one micro-shelter on display there now, RSVP at SmalltimoreHomes.org - > EVENTS to register. 
 
Completely sponsor a newly built 8x8 Micro-shelter and the tools that will build it ($5,000 + without any in-kind material contributions) and learn how it can offer safety and protection for those veterans and other neighbors experiencing homelessness in this vulnerable season of winter and COVID-19.