Community Corner
PGCCares Help the Homeless Walk
Join us for a Walk to Raise
Awareness and Raise Funds -- and Show How, Together, We Can End
Homelessness!
Register and join the PGCCares Help the Homeless Walk at Bowie's Allen Pond Park, Saturday, September 28th from 9:30 until 1:00pm.
Go To http://www.hthwalks.org/ and search by walk name for PGCCares where you can sign up to walk for one or more or all of our PGCCares partner agencies.
Four local nonprofits, Community Crisis Services, Inc. (CCSI), United Communities Against Poverty (UCAP), Laurel Advocacy and Referral Services and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, who, together serve thousands in need right here in Prince George's County, are partnering for a Help the Homeless Walk. Our walk seeks to raise awareness and raise funds to support and enhance our homeless services programs benefiting our communities.Homelessness affects all of us. Any given day, nearly 12,000 men, women and children are homeless in our Metro DC communities. More than 2,700 of our Prince George’s County Public School children experienced homelessness in the 2010-11 school year. There is a good chance that someone we work with, worship with, or go to school with, is homeless or in imminent danger of homelessness.
Our county cares greatly and is fully committed to ending homelessness, but succeeding in ending homelessness in our communities will require the dedication and efforts of all of us.
All those who register to walk will receive a Help the Homeless t-shirt and will have the opportunity to be part of a video sharing how Prince George’s County Cares and individual stories of “Why We Walk.” The City of Bowie has generously offered beautiful Allen Pond Park for our walk. Path to Greatness is supporting our efforts and helping us spread the word. Wegmans has stepped forward to offer refreshments and we will have 100 basketballs for children who walk.
Need Help Registering? Want to Walk as a Team? Need More Information?
Please contact:
Laila Riazi, Agency Partner, PGCCARES, Director of Development, Community Crisis Services, Inc. (CCSI), lailar@ccsimd.org, 202.258.6167-mobile.
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