Letter to Citrus County Commissioners LInk…Print…sign.. and mail…Thank you and God bless
http://www.missionincitrus.com/CountyCommissionerLetter.html
60 Ways that you can help.We are putting together numbers and emails for the County and State Politicians..They seem to ignore the poor and the homeless..While taxpayers foot the bill in increased medical care,jail,and burial expenses.Cost at the County Jail $ 87 a day.. The Mission $ 7 a day
1. Understand who the homeless are
2. Educate yourself about the homeless
3. Respect the homeless as individuals
5. Respond with kindness
6. Carry fast-food certificates
7. Develop lists of shelters for those in need
8. Buy prepaid cell phones
9. Bring food
10. Give money and follow it to see how it was used.
11. Give recyclables
12. Give proceeds from a craft sale
13. Give clothing
14. Give a bag of groceries
15. Give toys
16. Give welcome kits for shelters
17. Give a portion of party expenses
18. Give a book like the Bible or others
19. Volunteer at a shelter
20. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
21. Volunteer your professional talents
22. Volunteer your hobbies
23. Volunteer for follow up programs
24. Tutor homeless children
25. Take homeless children on trips
26. Bring a meal to the homeless
27. Organize a thrift shop
28. Volunteer at battered women’s shelters
29. Volunteer job training
30. Teach about the homeless
31. Publish shelter information
32. Enlist community organizations as advocates
33. Educate your children about the homeless
34. Sign up your company/school
34. Recruit local businesses
36. Ask your clergy to help
37. Suggest your congregation offer tithes
38. Create lists of needed donations
39. Teach their friends
40. Collect toys and games for donations
41. Prepare food and gifts
42. Donate admissions fees from an event
43. Use birthday parties to help
44. Play with children in a shelter
45. Start a Second Harvest program
46. Employ the homeless
47. Help the homeless apply for aid
48. Stand up for the civil rights of the homeless
49. Join Habitat for Humanity
50. Form a transitional housing program
51. Write to organizations
52. Contact your government representatives
53. Push for state homelessness prevention programs
54. Send us your ideas
55. Pray for the homeless
56.Take a homeless woman to the beauty shop.
57.Take a homeless person along to church
58.Remember…It could be you.
59.Knit quilts or blankets
60.Stop telling them to get a job…They are trying.