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Author: Boake Moore

A Great Gift Idea

With the current financial conditions and mortgage crisis the number of homeless people has risen drastically. Worse the proportion of homeless children and families has increased even more causing the number of homeless children to almost double from last year. Resources are scarce and giving is way down. And so many families are just a bad break from joining the many other families on the streets.

Did you know that 90% of them need a new, warm coat each winter because they have no place to keep one? But it's not just the children who need our help; thousands of single moms are forced to make a choice between buying shoes or a winter coat or blankets and putting food on the table, or meeting other basic survival needs.

Each winter, many companies collect new, used, and gently used winter coats and distributes them to hundreds of men, women, and children who would otherwise go without. One company delivered the coats as part of our Halloween festival to the Seven Bridges Shelter in Smyrna enlisting several Brownie Girl Scouts to help. Since the demand is so great we are continuing with coat drives for November and December. It was a great event for the children who celebrated Halloween and got a new coat and were able to keep their pride and self esteem.

There are so many ways to help. And you can combine your Holiday shopping or Christmas gift giving with ways to help the homeless.

How you can help:

Buy Some Coffee: buy someone a nice Holiday gift of coffee: many coffee companies now offers nice gift baskets, monthly coffee delivery, a nice assortment of coffee and a coffee club and give the proceeds to help children. Fair trade coffee also helps children in foreign countries. Buy someone a nice gift and all the proceeds go to impoverished children. If you join the coffee club you can help year round as will the monthly coffee club.

If you like get your church or corporation to buy the coffee on a larger scale and help the entire homeless shelter. If they buy enough coffee they can even decide where the money goes and they can help homeless children of their choice. Do you think their clients would like to receive a nice holiday basket of coffee knowing they have helped some homeless children in the process? Or you can honor your client with a donation in their name to the Jars of Clay or Seven Bridges Shelter.

Buy a homeless child a new coat or pair of shoes. For ten dollars you can buy a pair of shoes or a coat for a homeless child and we will deliver it directly for you. Amazing for only a mere $300 you can provide shoes for an entire shelter.

Donate a coat - Take your extra coats and blankets to a homeless shelter. Even better yet have a neighborhood coat drive or a company coat drive enlisting your fellow employees to get involved and bring their coats in. But be the leader and motivator and inspire people to help.

Make a financial donation - Providing so many coats each winter, as well as our year-round projects, requires an enormous amount of resources. Your donation will help us ensure that every Atlanta who needs a warm coat this year has one.

How satisfying will that cup of coffee taste knowing who it has helped.

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