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🤜🏽🤛🏽Posted • Hello Friends! ✊
We have adjusted our event days and times to accommodate where our neighbors are living unsheltered and the community doing the distribution of shared items!

We need your help now, more than ever. The kops that run the government on this stolen land have been very successful at destroying people’s things, but there are still thousands of mature, intelligent and caring people living outside in the Zone, and everywhere in this valley.

Help cooking and cleaning every Wednesday in the kitchen is greatly appreciated by all the community sharing meals each week.

We love your mutual-aid! Want to cook a meal for the community to share? Do you have things to share? Bring them to one of our events, or hand them directly to someone living outside in your neighborhood.

We are working to de-commodify our work and we really really like material goods that we can directly share. What is something you can produce for free or cheap? Do you have access to an evergreen source of any daily life items? We can use them. Maybe you can produce herbs on your counter-top. Maybe you like to dumpster-dive, maybe your work has food or items that your capitalist exploiters mandate you must throw out!? We want them! We live in a time of abundance, and helping each other connect to readily available resources is very important to building something long term and sustainable.

There are a million ways to pitch-in, but the best way is labor. Labor is how we build something for all of us, it will not be given to us, we must labor to build it. Labor can be behind the scenes on a computer, or can be in the park sharing with friends.

There are lots of ways to be involved, let us know if you have other ideas, we rely on creative input! 💜💜

Fridays @ 5 pm
Next to Andre House in Side Lot
1050 W Jackson St, PHX
(11th Ave & Jackson)

Sundays @ 3 pm
Cortez Park, North Lot
3434 W Dunlap Ave, PHX
(35th Ave & Dunlap)

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For those asking to Volunteer alongside animals this is your chance! Check it out 🐕🦮🦮🐾🐕‍🦺🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ • VOLUNTEERS WANTED 🤝 We need your help making everyday feel like the weekend for our dogs! We’re looking for volunteers who don’t work the typical Monday-Friday hustle to help us during the weekdays. A majority of our volunteers come in on Saturday and Sunday, but our animals could use the support all week long!

Typical volunteers commit to a minimum of 8 hours per month for a minimum of 6 months at MCACC shelters, but we can work with your busy schedules! We offer a variety of roles, including:
- Dog walkers
- Providing in-kennel enrichment
- Laundry and dishes
- Kennel cleaning
- Assisting clinic

If your day job falls on the weekend, why not spend your free time with some furry friends afterwards? 🐾 Shelter life is busy and a little chaotic, but the rewards are priceless.

Sign up to volunteer at the link in bio

This a story & GoFundMe I saw on my Nextdoor App in the East Valley. Sadly this is a situation many Americans are facing or close to facing every day. I feel for this woman who is older and alone with her two dogs.

Writing a holiday caption is difficult with the current everyday suffering and innocent lives lost in Palestine as well as instability, poverty, & hunger many of us are going through here at home.
🎄 -V Program

Escribir un título navideño es difícil con el sufrimiento cotidiano actual y las vidas inocentes perdidas en Palestina, así como con la inestabilidad, la pobreza y el hambre que muchos de nosotros estamos atravesando aquí en casa.
🎄 - V Program

🗣️VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY great for individuals or with a group of friends •Reposted• Donations have been coming in left and right lately and we are SO appreciative! Thank you for giving back to our guests and community!❤️ If you would like to volunteer to help sort donations, restock clothing closet, organize, & do basement work please sign up at the link in our bio!

In 2023 the Metro Phoenix area experienced the longest streak of high temperatures in recorded history. Now as temperatures fall Phoenix’s unhoused community face a challenge of a different kind, the cold.

Our unhoused neighbors not only just experienced record high extreme heat that resulted in heat related deaths throughout the Phoenix metro area, displacement from The Zone, and now they have to gear up and prepare for our cold Arizona winters.

StreetMed Phoenix is welcoming donations check out their page for more details, and if you have any ideas or suggestions let us know in the comments.


Reposted • With the cold weather approaching, we are open to any and all donations of cold relief supplies! Gloves, hats, hand warmers, and more are all appreciated. DM us or reach out via email to lend a hand!

Ok this is awesome!

Posted • Vroom vroom🚗🚗 we will be having a monthly break light clinic at the market!
Yay🥳 The goal of this is to provide FREE brake light repairs and fuse replacements for anyone who needs them!!
No cops🙅🏼‍♀️🚔We want to decrease the interactions people have with police and the possibility of arrest in regards to broken brake lights!!

🦃 Thanksgiving Volunteer Opportunity 👀

• Do you love Thanksgiving?
We're having a Thanksgiving Feast for our residents on Nov. 19 and could use your help!

We need food and hosts!

Contact [email protected] for more information about this gathering!

Have you volunteered at a Project Connect yet? 🔈

• We're getting ready for our next PROJECT CONNECT event coming up in September with our friends at the Avondale Baptist Church! 🙏

If you're not familiar with PROJECT CONNECT, yet -- these events are like a mobile satellite or pop-up HSC for a day.

We travel with various providers to an area that doesn't have a lot of services for people experiencing homelessness.

👋 If you're a SERVICE PROVIDER, and you want to get involved in PROJECT CONNECT, we would love to work with you!

We're always looking for new partnerships and ways to collaborate! Please don't hesitate to reach out to ask questions, and explore how you and your organization might be able to bring resources and relief to those in need. 🏡🚪🛌🔑

None of this work is possible without VOLUNTEERS. Sign up to volunteer with us! If you have a group of friends or co-workers that you'd like to sign up, we can help you coordinate! 💛 
(LINK IN BIO)
https://www.hscforms.com/pcsept/volunteer

Check this out 👀

Reposted• Join us tomorrow for some fun with Mini Mad Science.👨‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Workworks are recommended for children 2-5 years old.
Acompañanos mañana para divertirse con Mini Mad Science.👨‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 estas actividades son recomendas para niños de 2 a 5 años.

Very belated, these heat related deaths could have been prevented.

Did you guys hear about this? 🩸

Posted • Blood donation rules have changed to be more inclusive! All Red Cross blood donors will now answer the same questions about health, travel and behavior, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. This allows more people to help save lives while keeping the blood supply safe. ❤️

For many years, we've worked to change the deferral policy for gay and bisexual men. While these eligibility changes are a significant milestone, there is still work to be done, and we will continue to provide data to the FDA in support of further changes.