Homeless Children’s Playtime Project
Posted Saturday, February 25th, 2006 at 3:34 pm by Andrew (17 posts)
Recently, Beaconfire staff held a volunteer event for the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project.
The HCPP operates a play and recreatational program for children at Washington, DC’s largest emergency homeless shelter. Each week, volunteers arrive at the shelter with toys, sports equipment and snacks for the children.
At our event, we raised over $600 and created nearly 50 playkits for the volunteers to deliver to the children. Our kids contained toys, art supplies, snacks and bottled water.
We were spurred to action after reading this column by Courtland Milloy and talking with organization co-founder Jamila Larson.
