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People crowded around the tables in St. John’s Church on October 28 for the reopening of the meal site there. The reopened meal site is a joint effort of Homeless People’s Action Committee, Johnson and Wales University, Bryant University, and Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere, a Brown University student group.
The meal site is open for dinner every Tuesday at the Cathedral of St. John, 271 South Main St.
To read more about the first meal served there in months, click here.
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Want to know what's going on this month around Providence?
Check out the new Street Sights Calendar of November eventshere!
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This month, Street Sights is proud to give its Rainbow Award to William W. Price Jr., a peer specialist and counselor at Oasis. He goes out of his way to listen to peoples’ problems, and gives them rides, haircuts, and a variety of other things.
When I asked him “What do you like best about helping people?” he responded, “The best job that you can have is helping your fellow human beings. I enjoy being the liaison for people that sometimes cannot help themselves. I want to give back some of the opportunities that I had to others who are less fortunate.”
Read more about how Rice became a counselor after graduating from RISD here.
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Just as evening temperatures have started to plummet and the shelters continue to fill up with people, the Hypothermia Santuary has opened at Mathewson Street Church.
Frank Coowinham, a member of the Homeless People Action Committee (HPAC), explained that, in contrast to other shelters, "the Hypothermia Sanctuary is just for emergencies." The Hypothermia Sanctuary is open to everyone, but Coowinham said that people currently sleeping outside under bridges are the ones that the Sanctuary exists to serve in particular.
Hypothermia Sanctuary is located at the Mathewson Street Church, 134 Mathewson Street. It can house 40 people at most. The major function of the Hypothermia Sanctuary is to offer short-term accomodation -- usually up to one or two days -- when the temperature falls below 40 degress or during inclement weather.
To read more about the Hypothermia Sanctuary, click here.
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The November issue of Street Sights can be found around Providence and Rhode Island. For a list of distribution sites, email us at streetsights@gmail.com.
To download a complete copy of the November issue, click here! |
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