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REMOTE - Create Hygiene Kits for our Unhoused Neighbors!

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ORGANIZATION: Project Ropa

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 382 people are interested

Help create hygiene kits for us to directly distribute to people experiencing homelessness in the Los Angeles area. This is a great activity for children to get involved with.

We are looking for assistance creating hygiene kits to distribute to our unhoused neighbors. This can be done remotely by putting together items in a ziploc bag, tote bag or reusable grocery bag. Please note: Items for the hygiene kits will not be provided by us. We recommend reaching out to your network of friends and family to source the items.

All items can be travel-size or full-size.

Items to include in the kits are:

Essentials

  • Shampoo
  • Toothpaste and toothbrush
  • Soap
  • Body lotion
  • Shaving cream
  • Razor
Nice to Have
  • Deodorant
  • Q-Tips
  • Band-Aids
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Disinfecting wipes
  • Travel-size facial tissue pack
  • Toilet paper
  • Lip balm
  • Sunscreen
  • Dental floss
  • Hair bands
  • Conditioner
All kits can be mailed to us at: Project Ropa, 2851 W 120th Street, Suite E #566, Hawthorne, CA 90250 or dropped off at our warehouse in Gardena, CA. Drop off hours at our warehouse are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 9am-3pm and on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month from 10am-1pm. We are closed on all bank holidays. Our warehouse address is: 13970 Van Ness Avenue, Gardena, CA 90249.

If mailing please include a note with your full name and email address in the package.

Please note: We are unable to provide verification of remote volunteer work for community service hours. We can only do so for in-person volunteering.

The mission of Project Ropa is to restore dignity and empower the lives of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles by providing clean clothes, hygiene essentials, and employment opportunities while reducing textile waste and minimizing our carbon footprint.

To learn more about Project Ropa visit our website at: www.projectropa.org

For questions or to schedule a drop off or pickup email: donate@projectropa.org

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About Project Ropa

Location:

13970 Van Ness Avenue, Gardena, CA 90249, US

Mission Statement

The mission of Project Ropa is to restore dignity and empower the lives of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles by providing clean clothes, hygiene essentials, and employment opportunities while reducing textile waste and minimizing our carbon footprint.

Description

Project Ropa was founded in 2016 by Caitlin Adler to address the challenges that people experiencing homelessness face in obtaining and keeping clean clothes. When you're homeless, it doesn't take long to look that way, and the world and your options in it shrink. Most homeless people literally have only the clothes on their backs. Access to clean clothing is essential to the overall well-being of a person and can be the key to opening doors to employment and housing.

How you look affects how you feel about yourself and how others treat you. We believe everyone deserves to be treated with respect. No one should have to wear dirty clothes or clothes that are ill-fitting.

We provide a curated selection of new and gently used high-quality men's and women's clothing, shoes and accessories, along with personal hygiene products -- all donated by local manufacturers, retailers and nonprofit partners -- which we bring to locations throughout the city each week in a retrofitted van that acts as a mobile walk-in closet. At the same time, the people we serve can take a shower offered by another service provider with whom we work in tandem.

Our social enterprise provides employment opportunities for previously incarcerated individuals and people transitioning out of homelessness to work with our Mobile Hygiene Service.

CAUSE AREAS

Advocacy & Human Rights
Community
Homeless & Housing
Advocacy & Human Rights, Community, Homeless & Housing

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.

DATE POSTED

May 15, 2023

SKILLS

  • Community Outreach
  • Organization

GOOD FOR

  • Kids
  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

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