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LADIES' GUILD SHELTER DINNER
HOURSING FORWARD (FORMERLY PADS)

Again this year, the Mater Christi Women’s Guild will be providing and delivering dinner to the homeless clients of Housing Forward (formerly PADS) on the first Friday of each month. Due to COVID-19, the regular shelter locations are not available. Since communal dining is not able to take place, Housing Forward was given the opportunity to lease a small (54-room) hotel in Oak Park for one year. It is called the Write Inn. Within the hotel, each homeless client has a room with a microwave and a small refrigerator. There are no communal eating areas in the hotel.

Even without the communal eating areas, the clients still need to eat three meals a day and Housing Forward is hopeful that meal providers will be able to continue under the “new normal” circumstances. This would mean that we would be asked to supply 60 dinners in carry-out containers every first Friday.

The schedule for the shelter dinners are on the first Friday of the month with the first shelter dinner beginning on Friday, November 6th.

Donations, ranging from monetary, food items, or meal preparations are needed to help with these shelter dinners.

The 2020-2021 shelter schedule is as follows:

November 6, 2020
December 4, 2020
January 1, 2021
February 5, 2021
March 5, 2021
April 2, 2021
May 7, 2021

If you are interested in helping with this endeavor in any capacity, please contact Kathy Burns at (312) 543-2070 or via email at burns.kathleen@comcast.net.

Housing Forward Website - http://www.housingforward.org

 

 


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