 This past Saturday was a very quiet yet busy outing. Again, we encountered new faces, and new situations. We are dedicated to helping the most vulnerable amongst us, but even more so the most vulnerable amongst them. That would clearly be children, women, and the elderly. Well fortunately we haven’t seen many children, so that’s good, however there are lots of women who need some help with safety. With resources at a minimum, we are very concerned for them considering the devolving situation in the area of resources. We can and will do all they we can, but we aren’t big enough on our own. We would require a well funded partnership, with a private entity or the municipality, and plan to see it through. Having been greatly hampered by the pandemic, the limited availability of resources are a challenge, but not an insurmountable one. As we press forward on our mission of EMPOWERING OTHERS TO EMPOWER THEMSELVES, we certainly hope you will find the time to look into our organization further, and hopefully decide to help out by donating to our efforts. As a reminder, we will be out Tuesday to serve breakfast, so see y’all then!
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Today was another wonderful day of service, because it always is. Sometimes there are rough patches, but all in all, it always rewarding to help others. As we push forward with our route reestablishment, as well as the MLK FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM. Each week we are finding better ways to be more efficient, expeditious, and effective. As we continue to deliver backpacks too, we are also enrolling more people, who are showing interest, iti our MLK F&F PROGRAM. In addition to everything, the one thing we noticed was that there were more people than last week, and that’s both not surprising, and somewhat alarming. Especially, since it’s the very beginning portion of the month, we wonder how long resources are gonna last for our friends on an individual basis. So we will certainly be paying attention to the trends, both numerically and demographically.
With that, we will be out this coming Saturday running our mobile SACK LUNCH PROGRAM and all that comes with it, di we will see y’all then! So in the meantime, we hope you have a good week. Stay positive, stay kind, and stay safe!! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram!! https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ Today was all about HOPE! We had a very successful day of service in the community. The backpack distribution went very smoothly, for the most part. We are seeing a growing interest in the project from the new friends we are making, and it’s helping us to really get the “process” down. By that, we want to become as seamless as possible in the ways we deliver our services, efficiently and expeditiously on steroids! (Metaphorically speaking!) Anyway, it’s too soon to really say how the MLK FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM will proceed, until we have a very good idea as to what the numbers will be, on a consistent basis. We are big on keeping our word, and part of jetting you’re word is going what you say you can, when you say you will. So we try not to start what we can’t responsibly or reasonably sustain. With that, we are certainly committed to sharing the latest, when the time comes. We will be out next this coming Tuesday, and til then please do your best to be your best! Peace!!
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ Today’s breakfast program was a very productive outing. We made new friends, while delivering backpacks to ok existing ones. It’s very apparent that the numbers are slowly increasing, because the faces are constantly changing. Do we shall see in the very near future how rapid the increase in new faces will start looking. As we served breakfast today we were able to successfully deliver backpacks filled with some snacks and supplies, all of which are refillable. The frequency of the refills will be determined by the numbers of those we serve. As we continue to enroll individuals into our MLK FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM, we are slowly but steadily reaching our max membership number. Regardless, we will always help anyone we encounter, who chooses to accept our services, but there are times when we have extra things and those will go to F&F members first, and then to anyone who may want the extra items. In addition to the backpacks, we introduced our new breakfast option, turkey sausage and egg breakfast wraps. We will have to wait til Saturday to get the verdict, but we will certainly take any feedback into account. All in all it was a good day. We will see y’all this Saturday in the streets of Vallejo, as we will be out doing our SACK LUNCH PROGRAM! Til then, have a great week!!
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram! It’s been a minute, but we are finally getting back on track. On Saturday 07/25/2020 we were finally able to start rolling out the MLK FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM, as we were and to some degree are recovering from the immediate effects of the health crisis. We were able to distribute backpacks filled with basic needs items, including toiletries, snacks, information, a T-shirt, and sliders. We received our shipment of BOMBAS Socks, after we were done, so we will be distributing 2 pairs of socks this Tuesday to those who received backpacks, in addition to the pair of socks that will go to everyone we interact with. We were certainly encouraged by the responses to the backpacks, and the ensuing program. As always we will keep you posted as to how things are progressing, but in the meantime we will be focused on trying our best to help maintain public health, by implementing social distancing and passing out mask as we operate. Till next time, stay safe, stay vigilant, and stay engaged!
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram Today was ultimately a very rough day. We went out into the streets of Vallejo with hot oatmeal breakfasts, fruit, boiled eggs, granola bars, and graham crackers. It was such a wonderful day of service, and then it took a sad turn. After we noticed a cat laying in the street that had obviously been struck by a car. Knowing that it would most certainly be struck again, we immediately stopped and gathered it up. After our third attempt to get help, we were able to leave him in professional care. Unfortunately, the little guy didn’t make it, as he passed away shortly after being sedated. We took comfort knowing that at least he didn’t die alone and in terrible pain. With that, we should all respect and value life, all life, because you never really know when or if something will take a bad turn. Anyway, til next time, we hope you spend this week doing wonderful things in your life and in the lives of others! Peace and God Bless!
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram https://facebook.com/events/s/sack-lunch-program/574085636588774/?ti=icl https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ As we enter into the month of July, we have been consistent with our breakfast runs. As a precaution, we are slowly ramping up our meal counts. Currently we are serving hot cinnamon oatmeal with raisins, a boiled egg, a granola bar or graham crackers, a banana, and a bottled water. In addition we also provide toiletries upon request, and take requests for items to be given out on an individual basis, during our lunch program runs on the following Saturday. We have tried to get some ideas from our friends as to what they might prefer in lieu of the oatmeal, but the oatmeal seems to be the consensus favorite. Today, 07/13/2920, we attempted to roll out a second option of breakfast burritos, but couldn’t agree on the portions, so we will try with samples first, and starting next week. Til then we will be out this coming Saturday for our Sack Lunch Program, where we will be systematically signing people up to receive a refillable backpack of basic needs items, and much more. So we will update you on next Tuesday with the verdict on breakfast burritos. In the end it’s all about building relationships, do we can help and inspire our friends to rebuild their lives.
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram! https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ It’s been an incredibly challenging time for us all, but yesterday reminded us here at MLKHP just how much we appreciate what we have. So many are going without and learning how to make it with less. It’s our intention to help others as much as we can to get through these times, especially for but not limited to the unhoused. We have seen a steady increase in new faces, and that’s a concern. With the availability of employment and resources becoming scarce, there are certain demographics who will be left to fend for themselves. We are fast at work developing a program especially for this particular group, that we suspect will be comprised largely of single men with criminal records. However, we know that everyone with a criminal record isn’t a criminal. We will be rolling out our new program in the next 2-3 weeks depending on the anticipated arrival of necessary goods and items. Til then we will continue to go our best to bring out the best in others. See you next week in the streets of Vallejo!
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ Well it’s another tough time in our country, and that only means tougher times for our friends. With recent grant funding helping us through this tough time, we are blessed to be able to serve. It’s been a very trying time, but we’re heading in the right direction. Staying the course has proven it worth. With 80 lunches, am we went out to help the less fortunate, and the love was reciprocal all the way around. We will be out next week with even more things to help our friend find some stability and peace of mind! So see y’all next streets of Vallejo, CA!!
This past weekend, we finally came up with a solution to practice social distancing and still serve our friends. We decided to treat our van in a manner consistent with an ice cream or food truck. It was very successful, and we are more confident going out again moving forward. Our main concern is reestablishing contact with those who couldn’t reach us, or thought we had discontinued service. It was a pretty telling day, as we learned a lot of much needed information. So as we learn to rework our operating procedures, we will certainly continue to love and help our friends. So see y’all next week in the streets of Vallejo!! https://www.facebook.com/144466902960746/posts/738132883594142/?vh=e&d=n Follow us on Facebook and Instagram!!
It was a beautiful day in every aspect this past Saturday for all intensive purposes. We set out on our regular route, but not before stopping at a new location for us. It would prove to be an eye opening encounter. Many people in need, and it’s something that demands our attention, not only as an organization, but as a community at large. Until we’re sure about how we will best serve this ew location, we will keep the details to a minimum. Time will surely tell us how to best proceed. The day would continue to prove to be a very busy one moving forward. We heard some very unfortunate news about one of our dearest friends, and we certainly hope he pulls through. With heavy hearts, we used the news as motivation to get people to be more engaged in betterment of their own situations, because you simply never know. Anyway, we have been trying to get the ducks in a row to launch our new 12 month campaign for the MLK FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM starting in May 2020 - April 2021. It’s going to be a serious upgrade from our existing protocols, so we can’t wait to get it done. We are set to head out this coming Saturday morning, and we will see you in the streets of Vallejo then. Til then remember to tell the ones you love that you love them before you can’t. Always remember to be kind to others. Peace and God Bless!! ✌🏾🙏🏾
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!! ONELOVE❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏼💚✊🏻💛 **Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ Well it’s Sunday morning, and another beautiful day in the Bay Area of California. There’s a renewed sense of enthusiasm here at the MLKHP, not to say we ever lacked any, however we are feeling reinvigorated lately. In large part we owe it to a series of great events, all culminating to the moment we were blessed to meet an amazing young lady named Daisy Guillen (Daisy will not be seen in this video, go to Image if the Week). Daisy reached out to us, via her mom, and took it upon herself to use her Xmas money, $100, to buy items from our Amazon Smile Wishlist to donate to our friends. We were floored, and after we actually received the items, we were even further amazed. You see Daisy and her mom not only put together great toiletry bags, but they also wrote a special note for each and every bag. Oh by the way we forgot to mention something, DAISY IS 8 YEARS OLD!! 😇
Si after meeting Daisy we went out with her wonderful bags, as well as our toiletry bags provided to us by Project Blessing Bags, and coupled with everything else we provide, it made for a beautiful day of service in the streets of Vallejo!! So we want to thank Daisy and all of the other amazing Daisys out there, be they girls or boys. We can really learn a lot from our children, and we should applaud them when they do things that help humanity. We should encourage and support them, and that’s exactly what we plan to do here at the MLKHP!! Til next time, have a great week, and we will see you in Monday 01/20/2020, MLK Jr. Day!!! Peace and God Bless!! ✌🏾🙏🏾 ONELOVE❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏼💚✊🏻💛 Well it’s almost the end of the year, and the decade for that matter, and the winter season holidays are almost behind us yet again. With it being the final sack lunch run of the year, we wanted to do something special, in addition to all of the absolutely necessary things that we do for our friends. Sometimes we just want to make people smile, and we’ve learned that whenever we serve our red beans and rice, our friends are very appreciative. We serve them hot and we believe that’s part of the lure. Nothing brings back good memories like homemade food made with love. Along with the treat, we were also able to provide everyone with hand warmers, and Mylar blankets for those who wanted and needed one. The thing that most people don’t realize is that our friends, more often than not, will not take what they don’t really need, because they know full well that someone who is in more need might miss out if they take what they can because they can, and not because they need to. It was a very long day, as we traversed the streets of Vallejo looking for those in need. Usually this time of year there are so many groups serving, that our friends aren’t in need as much, and that’s a good thing. With the reality of ending a year homeless along with knowing that the new year will present as many if not more challenges, we are prepared fully to start next year even more determined to live up to our mission statement which is to “EMPOWER OTHERS TO EMPOWER THEMSELVES”!! Words to live by!! With lots of irons in the fire, we are most excited at the unveiling of our new website for next year, so we hope you’ll like it as much as we are proud of it. Along with the website we encourage you to keep your eyes on our progress, because there’s so much good out there yet to do. So we can’t wait to hit the streets next year in 2020, and do our thing!!
As the day progressed, and we finally finished our lunch program, we had time to relax for a brief minute, because after being honored to serve others, we were going to attend an event later on honoring ourselves and a few select others, for being of service to the Vallejo community. To say the least, it was amazing! Askari Sowonde and all those involved with the production of this wonderful event, truly outdid themselves. From the wonderful entertainment, to the powerful speakers, and the many light hearted moments, to say it was amazing would be an understatement at best. Not only were we and others recognized by the city, but we also received recognition from the California State Legislature!! Right on!! To make it all even that much better, we even won two raffle items, including a beautiful pillow, and a fabulous framed artwork entitled “PAPYRUS”!!! Once again, it was a truly amazing evening of unity and edutainment!!! We can’t wait to attend next year and support the new class of honorees!! Last but not least we hope that that everyone has a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve, and we will see you on the flip side! Til then keep doing what brings you joy and hopefully brings joy to others. Tell the ones you love that you love them before you can’t! Peace, and May God continue to Bless Us All!! ONELOVE❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏼💚✊🏻💛 This past Saturday we were very excited to have a special treat for our friends. Thanks to the generosity of Makhan Dabb, owner of TOGOs in Vallejo, we were able to provide deli style sandwiches with all the fixings, in place of our standard ham or turkey sandwiches. It was a great surprise for all of our friends, and it allowed us to make this pre-Xmas lunch run even more special. We were able to also offer bread pudding or pear halves for desert. Everyone received Bombas socks and blankets, while others also received much needed umbrellas or tarps to address the off and on rainy weather. All in all it was a great day of service, and we are certainly ready to end the year off with a bang! So see you this coming Saturday in the streets of Vallejo!!
ONELOVE❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏼💚✊🏻💛 This past Saturday was another wet one, and when it’s wet and cold, it’s hard to find our friends. There are certain areas we do venture into for primarily safety reasons, so we do our best to inform our friends via social media, to let them know we’re heading out to serve. After receiving a many inquiries to where we would be when, it’s become evident that we must further ratify the process in a manner that keeps it expeditious and equally as encompassing. It’s important that we keep in contact with our friends, because it offers us more opportunity to help them when they ask, and it also enables us to keep our finger on the pulse of the constantly changing demographics of who we are serving. It’s hard to accurately prepare for what numbers we may encounter, but it’s becoming easier to guesstimate with more frequency. We are in the final month of the year, and we are moving forward with our plans to distribute certain items on a first come first serve basis. With the exception of limited items, the majority of wet/cold weather items will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. Certain transactions will be documented to avoid giving one individual too much of the same item, for example more than one umbrella or coat. As we progress through the remainder of the month, we will certainly be working diligently to ensure that we can do what we can to help our less fortunate brothers and sisters in need. Part of this will include an upgrade to our operational format via fundraising efforts and refurbishment of our website. As we seek out additional storage and support, we assure you that the MLKHP will stay the course, remain fully transparent, and do our best to continue to support our friends, as they work on themselves and their situations. The whole purpose of our project is to “EMPOWER OTHERS TO EMPOWER THEMSELVES”, and by doing so, we hope that they can achieve self sufficiency, and in return show someone else the way out of the rabbit hole!
Have a great week, and we will see you in the streets of Vallejo next Saturday! Peace and God Bless!! ✌🏾🙏🏾 Follow us Facebook and Instagram https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ ONELOVE❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏼💚✊🏻💛 Today was a cold and wet one in Vallejo, CA, so to say the least, there were gonna be some friends who would most definitely be in need. We did our best to provide both physical and emotional comfort today, as we went out with extra hearty lunches, lots of positive energy, and a slew of warm weather items. It’s our intention to go back out tomorrow to see who we might have missed, or who might have missed us. So we will see y’all next week in the streets of Vallejo.
ONELOVE❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏼💚✊🏻💛 Follow is on Facebook and Instagram https://www.facebook.com/144466902960746/posts/610095313064567?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ This past Saturday was a very busy one for us, as we went out to do a four person job with 2 people. I along with my wife, saw to it that we kept our commitment to not only see to it that all of our lunch recipients, a number which is often random in nature, recurved a pair of socks, a toiletry bag, along with a sack lunch, and the opportunity to request an umbrella or even a blanket. After next weekend this requisition process of limited items, will be open to everyone, and not just card carrying MLK FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM members. We are continuously meeting new people and it’s a bit alarming, because there’s a lack of familiarity coming back into play. It’s paramount to cultivate and nourish the already established relationships we’ve formed, as well as trying to constantly start new ones. Either way, our ability to maintain responsible relationships is our main focus, and therefore we must be sustainably consistent, and that calls for trust, and that trust is built on keeping our word. So with that said, we are going out next Saturday on the 30th of November with a special Thanksgiving themed lunch program! We are certain that our friends will enjoy what we have planned as much as we enjoy planning and seeing it through to fruition. Til then, take care and we will y’all next week in the streets of Vallejo!
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram!! https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ ONELOVE❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏼💚✊🏻💛 Today was another step towards building bonds of trust with our friends. and the fact that it started out somewhat dreary and slightly chilly, was a strong indication that it was gonna be a cold winter season. Therefore on a business note we knew this to be a serious concern for our friends, so we went out with the goal of providing all of our friends with hand warmers, courtesy of a friend, a mix of knitted hats, scarves, gloves, beanies, and Mylar blankets. In addition we also took out socks for those in immediate need, as we will be providing socks for everyone this coming Saturday. We are equally as focused on fulfilling other needs to combat the imminent cold weather, by providing extra items, that are unfortunately limited in supply. To facilitate this effort, we will be providing our MLK FRIENDS & FAMILY PROGRAM members the first opportunity to request a tarp or an umbrella, by showing their membership cards to sign the requisition list. Those who produced their cards and signed up to select an item, will receive their items next week. As a result we will be able to fairly distribute the limited availability items to our friends. By the first Saturday in December, we will suspend the members first protocol, and instead allow these items, provided we have them available, to be claimed on a first come first serve basis. Only those who have not previously received a requested item will be allowed to participate in the first come first serve distribution process. We hope to also do this with blankets beginning next week as well. It’s proving to be well received, and since we made some unrelated requests deliveries today, are friends can rest assured that we will be doing our best to keep our word.
On a personal it was a somewhat sad day for a few of our beloved friends. Death has become a reoccurring theme throughout our homeless community, and it saddens us to know we can’t do more than we do. We do our best to listen and offer comfort paired with hope. We certainly will keep pour friends, who shared their grief with us today, in our prayers, but then again we constantly keep our growing our prayers. So on that, we will be out next Saturday to spread some much needed love and kindness, the only way we know how, with open hearts and open minds!! Please follow us Facebook and Instagram https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ #ONELOVE This Saturday was another step towards incorporating important services into the construct of our project. We were joined by Kaiser doctor Emily Fisher and her associate, Dr. Matt Symkowick, in an effort to introduce them to our friends. The goal is to establish relationships with medical professionals with many who are apprehensive to seek help because of a lack of resources or a heightened state of paranoia for many other reasons. It would appear that our friends will be willing to participate in any program we set up with the doctors. The program would be designed to help serve their basic medical needs and to answer any questions they may have concerning treatment options and ways to reasonably seek and receive said treatment. The prospects are exciting, and we will certainly keep you abreast of any progress made. In addition to having doctors join our network building effort, we are also going to provide 2 pair of socks per month, on a bi-weekly schedule, in an effort to help our friends combat the cold season that is now upon us. So we are thankful for that.
Along with the lunches and toiletry bags, aka Blessing Bags, we were able to help many people Saturday, and can’t wait to see them next week. So until that time comes, we will be working diligently this week to stay the course, and grow the project. See you next week in the streets of Vallejo, CA!! ***Please follow us on Facebook & Instagram https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ It’s been another successful weekend of service. This was our first week of service without being partnered with Outpaw Outreach. Due to scheduling issues, we felt it best to operate independently, but with a referral based relationship. Our friends have been reassured that we will continue our MLKHP Pet Program, and it will at the very least be business as usual, and there will only be room for improvement and growth. We will continue to work with our other partners, listed in our Sponsorships & Partnerships section of this website. We are excited about potential projects for holiday service, and will be updating you on that, as soon as possible. Other than that, we were surprised at the volume of people we served, considering it was the 2nd of the month, and for many of our friends, some financial resources are available. Anyway, we took note of the unusually high number, and will be better prepared to serve in the weeks to come. So on a final note, we are committing to giving everyone, who receives a lunch, a pair of socks twice each month, from November through January. Much thanks to our partnership with BOMBAS SOCKS, because it will allow us to provide the socks during these cold months!! So with that, we will see y’all next week in the streets of Vallejo!!
Follow us on Facebook and https://www.facebook.com/MLKHumanityProject/ BOMBAS SOCKS https://bombas.com/pages/about-us Yesterday was another amazing day of truth and circumstance meeting up with the challenges that come with homelessness. We found out that one of our friends was killed while riding his bicycle, as we learned that another friend was going to start a new job. Despite the pitfalls, many of our friends are working towards avoiding them and realizing the importance of urgency, because it’s getting rough out there. All in all it would prove to be a day of revelations on so many levels. We felt that yesterday left us better connected with our friends, and it encourages us to continue our efforts to empower others to empower themselves!! So we’re gonna see y’all next week in the streets of Vallejo!! ✌🏾🙏🏾
Today was quite the day service, messages, and making moves to grow as an organization dedicated to empowering others. With many potentially new partnerships in the works, today we worked to build one with Dr. Emily Fisher and her team. We hope to provide access to medical advice and services from here in out. As usual we saw many old friends, and as we have consistently seen, we made many new friends to go with the new faces. With our 100 sack lunches, Bombas Socks, toiletries bags from Project Blessing Bags, Pee products, and do much more, we went out to ease the burden of homelessness if only for a moment, but with the hopes of finding permanent solutions. So with that being said, we will certainly see you in the streets of Vallejo next Saturday morning!!  This weekend was a bit of an oddity, in the sense that the 1st of the month is falling on a Sunday, and then the following Monday is Labor Day! The issue that these oddly timed dates cause, is the fact that many of our friends will not have access to financial assistance until Tuesday, or even Wednesday. Knowing tgst, we prepared to do something that was both nice and necessary for our friends, so in addition to taking out 100 sack lunches, we also went out with 70 hit, chicken, sausage, and rice dinners. The extra treat was a hit, but more importantly it provided an additional meal for our friends, allowing them save their lunches for later on in the day. With many stories of personal achievements coming from so many of our friends. We have seen a shift in attitudes, and now we see that many of our friends are getting tired of their situations enough to begin to change their approach to their lives. It’s very inspiring and will only serve as additional motivation for us to stay the course. Anyway, with the holiday coming tomorrow, we hope you and yours have a wonderful day going whatever brings y’all joy. Do always remember to tell the ones you love that you love them before you can’t!! Always remember to be kind to others!! See you in the streets of Vallejo next week!! Peace and God Bless!! |
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