NEWPORT BEACH, CA – HomeAid America, a building industry charity and one
of the nation’s largest builders of housing for the homeless, is spending the
entire month of November holding events and undertaking activities to highlight
and help to end homelessness in this country. The annual event is called HomeAid’s
Homlessness Awareness Month.
“Despite economic improvement the past few years, homelessness
remains a huge problem in this country,” said Peter Simons, CEO of HomeAid
America, the national charity that was founded 26 years ago as a way for the
building industry to give back to the community by addressing the issue of
homelessness. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness, every
year alone over 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness, and well over 1
million of them are children. The causes of homelessness are many,
including job loss, medical crisis, domestic abuse, alcohol or drug addiction,
and post-traumatic stress syndrome in veterans. It is estimated that 80%
of the homeless are only situational and can be moved back to self-sufficiency.
“For the richest country in the world to allow so many to go
unfed and unsheltered is a national tragedy, and one we can do something
about,” said Simons. “HomeAid’s Homelessness Awareness Month is a time to
focus on this problem, have a genuine discussion about solutions, and take
action to get this situation fixed for once and for all.”
All HomeAid’s active chapters will be holding events to
highlight HAW this month. They include:
- Nov 2—HA Inland Empire will cook and serve
dinner at the Corona Norco Rescue Mission (also on the 9th and 11th)
- Nov 3—HA San Diego will hold a shelter sandwich
drive for “National Sandwich Day”
- Nov 7—HA Southern Nevada will hold One Run Las
Vegas
- Nov 7—HA Northern Virginia will be holding a Toy
Drive
- Nov 9—HA Colorado will hold a Professional Women
in Building Clothing Drive
- Nov 12—HA Atlanta will celebrate Georgia Gives
Day with an Appreciation Luncheon
- Nov 13—HA Northern California will hold a toy
drive with the PASS group
- Nov 13—HA Orange County will assemble sack
lunches for homeless emergency shelters
- Nov 19—HA Sacramento will culminate a 2 week
blanket drive
- Nov 21—HA Portland with conduct at Care Kits
drive at the Builders Ball
For a complete listing of HomeAid HHAW events,
visit www.homeaid.org
ABOUT HOMEAID AMERICA
HomeAid is a leading national non-profit provider of housing for homeless families and individuals. Through the generosity of builders, their trades and their suppliers, HomeAid has completed over 410 housing projects nationwide at a value of more than $200 million, of which nearly fifty percent has been donated by the building industry. Nearly 225,000 people have been sheltered by these housing projects over the past 26 years. HomeAid currently has over 50 additional projects in development across the country through HomeAid’s network of 17 chapters in 12 states. For more information about HomeAid, call 1 888 3HOMEAID or visit www.homeaid.org.