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“One Night Without a Home” Awareness Sleep Out |
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10/20/07 |
On Thursday, November 15, 2007, the WV Mental Health Consumers
Association and the Kanawha Valley Collective will be sponsoring a “One
Night Without a Home” Awareness Sleep Out at Magic Island in
Charleston. This event is part of National Hunger and Homelessness
Awareness Week “One Night” is an opportunity for residents to spend a
night outside to discuss, think, and learn about homelessness. Although
one night outside can in no way simulate homelessness, this
awareness-raising activity will promote advocacy and education for
those with the fewest resources.
The program will begin at 8:00
PM and include speakers, a candlelight vigil, live music, and
facilitated discussion groups (including a group specifically for
children). Additionally the West Virginia independent film, “On the
River’s Edge”, a documentary following the lives of squatters on the
riverbank just west of Huntington’s Harris River Front Park will be
screened. The formal program will conclude by midnight when folks will
be encouraged to bed down for the night.
National Hunger and
Homelessness Awareness Week -- November 11-17 -- is a national endeavor
to promote education, action, and awareness about hunger and
homelessness. Other events include the 21st Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
to Aid the Homeless benefiting the YWCA Sojourners Shelter and Roark
Sullivan Lifeway Center on November 11 and the Big Bean Dinner 2007
benefiting the Religious Coalition for Community Renewal on November 15
(preceding “One Night”).
For more information contact:
- Kim Murphy,
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, 598-8847 ext 23
- Julie Alston,
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, 414-0109
- Deb Weintstein,
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, 340-3555
- Amy Weintraub,
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, 344-8053 ext 22
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