“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” Seneca
Lift Up Your Voice (LUYV) To End Homelessness
by Kathy Powell
Lift Up Your Voice Lift is as always “weaving a tapestry” in our community supporting our homeless neighbors. Our esteemed Chair Sue Brinkmeyer has handed the baton over after she stepped up for our past esteemed Chair Harold Dale Cartlidge. Many thanks and blessings sent to them both.
Our group monthly serves a big meal at Family to Family to over 100 people, brings dinner to Riverhaven, assists at the Winter Warming Shelter, volunteers weekly at One Stop and we have members in Oxnard and Ventura working with policy issues for both cities.
Please contact me, Kathy Powell if you want to talk about where you might fit in. kathypurpleprincess@gmail.com or 805/910-8860. Sometimes just going out for one time with our Park Outreach Team helps you dip your toe in the water and we laugh and talk and could help direct you where you may fit in best.
Lift Up Your Voice has two boxes in Berg Hall for donations to our homeless outreaches. We need freshly laundered clothes, jackets, shoes, blankets, sleeping bags, backpacks or luggage. These things are so valuable as we go out into the community. Please remember our folks live outside, they don’t have access to electricity or devices we consider common in our houses. Lately we have been getting donations of dvds, electronics and other things they wouldn’t be able to use. I will speak for myself that as I get older my energy level isn’t what it used to be so trying to find good places for those things is a bit difficult. Please keep this in mind and perhaps contact a thrift store or a shelter that can use those precious things.
805-644-3898
administrator@uuventura.org
