When Project H3: Home, Health, Hope launched in April 2010, several members of our HOM, Inc. team volunteered to conduct surveys of persons experiencing street homelessness between 4 and 6 AM for three straight days. Following the survey days, at the community briefing where the results of the survey efforts were announced, the HOM, Inc. team took our commitment up a notch.  We volunteered to collect and donate all of the items that would turn an empty “apartment” into a “home” for one of the participants in Project H3.

Over the course of several months, we put together our in-kind sponsorship.  We brought in almost everything for our participant to get a new start in their new home!  Early in December, we received word that our new friend, Ms. Angie, would be moving into her new apartment.

Once we got the keys, our entire Team spent an afternoon setting up the apartment.  While Christmas music played, we set up her bedroom with a bed, lovely linens, a dresser, lamps and a nightstand.  The living/dining room was outfitted with a couch and throw pillows, dining room table and four chairs.  We made sure to program the TV and VCR and double-checked that she had More >