We are in a long cold snap, more than 10 days, below freezing every day.
In addition, the administration closed off available hotel rooms for no good reasons.
Donate to our emergency fund so that we can help our neighbors get inside.
Click here. www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
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We have a client that delivered a baby yesterday and is about to run our of her 80 days and another that is about to. We need your help today to ensure we can help infants stay sheltered. This system is so inhumane, please help bring some humanity.
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URGENT NEED. Highly medically vulnerable clients ending up outside. This is the first fall we have had to say no so often because we do not have the funds.
This is one way you can help.
HELP NOW www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
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But criminalizing it did.
Here are the facts. Donations are way down and crisis is way up. We need your help today.
The faster it comes and more that comes the more people we are able to help.
www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
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Today, we worked with someone on oxygen to keep them sheltered. We fought to keep a child with cystic fibrosis sheltered.
People are running out of their 80 days. We need you to step up. People need you.
www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
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Today I will just share with you the beautiful poem from our friend Morgan Brown that we shared 4 years ago.
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One thing that was so amazing on the steps was all the helpers. Today we need you for people who need help right now.
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If you would have helped us then. Help your fellow Vters today.
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/4 $1000 or more can help us to be able to hire staff to meet incoming needs and support longer hotel stays.
$5000 can help 2 people with extreme needs stay sheltered until. Or to help have enough staff to meet the growing demand.
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3/ $250 can provide gas cards or small battery generators for people living out of their car or outside so that they can have heat or use medical devices.
$500 can help support large generators for people on oxygen or with electric wheelchairs.
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2/ As we tell you more about our story, let us share how your support helps people outside now.
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4 contributions $25 ensures we can get a tent for a family.
1 contribution of $80, allows us to support a family with 1 night of a hotel.
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1/ 4 yrs ago, was 6th night on steps. We were feeling impacts. Weighed on us that thousands were outside for no reason.
Tonight also worrying. With federal cuts & state policies we are seeing so many highly medically vulnerable exited to the street.
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/5 The next time it is cold and rains, we ask all of you to think about those outside in this time, soaked from head to toe.
Our only tools come from all of you. We can't do it without you. So many showed up then we need you to show up now.
www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
4/ Been thinking about this a lot lately. Many outside right now with extreme medical vulnerabilities. Our neighbors & our community members.
We are doing all we can, but so many will be outside on the coldest nights through the winter. Cruelty of our states shelter policy is taking lives.
3/ That day all of our gear ripped, one rain storm and we no longer had rain gear. This happens to people outside every day and there is no way for them to get dry, get new gear. The suffer impacts if hypothermia, frostbite and more.
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2/ I was there with, Josh Lisenby, co-founder of founder of EHVT & at that time chronically homeless for 6 years. He is now housed. Important to all of us to say out loud that WE were not suffering the impacts.
We were led through this by Josh. We would not have made it without him.
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1/ yesterday would have been our 4th night, 4 years ago, it poured rain we were soaking wet. All our stuff soaking wet. Within a few hours we were able to get dry. SAME day over 2000 experiencing homelessness did NOT have people drying their belongings or bringing them food.
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/4We are here to stay until we end homelessness in our VT and end the cruelty & suffering.
All of you showed up then. We need you now more than ever. The cruelty is beyond believable and we are watching fellow Vermonters suffer.
Be part of the solution today: www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
3/ I didn't know this yet heading into our third night, but I learned it as we stayed, I was never going to walk away from this as long as people were still outside.
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2/ We did not leave though. We stayed. On this morning 4 years ago, I said "2 nights down, as many as it takes to go".
So today I will say this 1463 days down, as many as it takes to go....
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1/ Right now 4 years ago we would have been falling asleep on the State House Steps. The first night that the temperatures dropped a little. Just to the 40's & I was cold, did not handle it well. I also was a little scared. I was not experiencing homelessness, just a tiny window into it.
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Yeah. It was pretty horrible.
Exactly. This is what I keep saying.
/3 Over the next 27 days we will share with you our story. EHVT has grown immensely & federal funding cuts/state cuts have led to high need.
Just as you all showed up in our beginning, we need you to show up now.
Donate here: www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
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2/ We had no idea 4 years ago 1 night would turn into 27 & then more than 4 years. That thousands of people would return to shelter because of the actions of 3 regular people. It was on the steps that we started our hotline, because people would find us there and ask for help.
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1/ End Homelessness Vermont was born of necessity. 4 yrs ago yesterday we spent our first night on Statehouse steps. Now we serve over 2000 people/year, ongoing support to over 500 with disabilities & 196 with extremely high needs.
www.endhomelessnessvt.org/donate.html
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Thank you to The People's Kitchen & those who are experiencing homelessness for welcoming EHVT & our All Voices Vote project last night in Burlington.
We were so honored to spend time in community with you & meeting already registered voters & new voters who registered.
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Join me in not spending a single dime today to show that we too, when we do it together, have economic power too. #vtpoli #economicboycott
I spoke at the House Democrats Press conference this past week in my role as Executive Director of End Homelessness Vermont, alongside Frank Knaack the ED of HHAV this past Tuesday.
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