Hey folks, it's getting cold, worried about folks in my area.
Would y'all prefer a care package with socks, wet wipes, a lighter, some candy and clif bars, or would you prefer the equivalent in cash? I figure some things are probably hard to get to shops to purchase, but I wanted to ask folks who have been there and know what's most helpful.
If you would prefer a care package, what are some important essentials that you'd want to have in it?
i co-founded a tiny org that did essentially this
our packages contained (off the top of my head):
- clothes (usually from a charity shop, two birds stoned at once)
- wet wipes or soap
- pack of socks
- matches
- sometimes a little hexamine stove (like they put in ration packs here) when we could get them cheap
- for smokers a pouch of tobacco (bought from a guy that smuggled it from the continent, cheaper when there's no tax on it lol), rolling papers, and filters
- some food, usually stuff we cooked ourselves
I was homeless for one winter in a cold place. I would have preferred the cash, but your list would have been good too. The hardest things to get for free that I really needed were socks, toilet paper and blankets. I could get free clothes at a couple places, but they never had socks.
