Howard High Students Raise 3K To Help Homeless With Aid From Relevant Hope
Pastor Jimmy Turner, Relevant Hope,"That we would do everything we could to help you reach that goal and today now that we have totaled up all the money you have raised 3101 dollars."
With an initial goal of raising 1000 dollars in two weeks to buy special jacket sleeping bags the seniors can now provide 31 sleeping bags to Chattanooga’s most needy.
Non-profit group Relevant Hope helped the students with their senior project.
The first two jacket sleeping bags were welcomed at this homeless camp on Broad Street.
Barry Dent, Homeless,"Besides the wind chill it was 6 degrees last year when it snowed, it was 6 to 8 inches when I woke up tent caved in around me, I was snug as a bug but you know when you get out in it, it’s pretty vicious."
The students spent months researching and working with Chattanooga’s homeless community throughout the winter months.
Teshayla Yearby,"I learned that just because they don’t live or eat like us that they don’t mean they are not human, they bleed the same blood as we bleed."
Brinique Malone,"I put a lot of work into my project took me some months, we raised the money by going to churches and the people who work with my mama."
The sleeping bags were originally designed in Michigan to reduce homeless deaths in freezing temperatures.
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