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Help Distribute Hygiene Essentials to the Unhoused
ORGANIZATION: Project Ropa
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About Us
Project Ropa is a small nonprofit organization on a mission 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.
Project Ropa operates the only Mobile Clothing Closet of its kind in the Los Angeles area. On a weekly basis our retrofitted van delivers hope as well as hygiene kits, drinking water and a full selection of men’s and women’s clothing, shoes and accessories all neatly displayed on racks and shelves to unhoused and low-income individuals and families at service sites in Echo Park, Lincoln Park and Hollywood. At each location we operate in tandem with other mobile service providers which include showers, haircuts, ID replacement, food pantries, medical and dental clinics and employment and housing resources.
Direct Service Volunteer Opportunities
Each week our mobile closet takes to the streets of Los Angeles delivering hope as well as clean clothing, shoes and hygiene kits. We operate in Echo Park on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month and in Boyle Heights on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 9am-12pm. We work in tandem with mobile showers as well as other service providers at both locations.
We also do a quick service in the Hollywood area on the 4th Friday of the month between 12pm-2pm where we provide grab 'n go packs of clothing essentials and hygiene kits in tandem with a nonprofit that provides meals.
Volunteers will help with distributing clothing and personal hygiene essentials directly to those in need at our service locations. Project Ropa staff will be on-site at all times during services.
Learn more about us: www.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
WHEN
WHERE
1226 North Alvarado StreetLos Angeles, CA 90026
DATE POSTED
May 15, 2023
SKILLS
- Mental Health
- Veteran Care
- Multi-Tasking
- Organization
- People Skills
- Social Work
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18