45th St Community Clean-up, Meal, Care Kit

Help us raise $1500 to complete 250+ care kits, hot meals , and haircuts for our unhoused neighbors in North Oakland, South Berkeley, Emeryville, and West Oakland encampments. Check the facebook event page for in-kind donations.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2288583484713698/
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We invite you to our next edition of Brunch and Brooms, a neighborhood cleanup, community meal, and hygiene/winter gear kit distribution centering at the highway underpass off of 45th Street and MLK. In partnership with our neighbors who live there, we would like to gather to share some food and help with cleaning up the dumping under the 45th overpass. 

Help us assembles hot meals and care kits for 250 unhoused neighbors, that will be delivered to surrounding encampments during the days We are $1,500 to make the distribution happen in completion.

We need:
-$ - donate on link on facebook or to go fundme
-Tents/Tarps/Rain Gear
-Gift card to costoco/target
-new socks, underwear
-dog food (for unhoused neighbors with pets)
-new tooth brush/toothpaste
-deodorant, small soaps, etc
-water (1 gallon or larger please)
-granola bars
-canned with pop top ready to eat stuff (tuna, sardines, jams, etc)
-Food for the brunch (high quality eggs, maple syrup (real), meats, etc)
-barber

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Many hands make for light work and we hope you can join us at some point during the early afternoon.

This event is brought to you by the Longfellow Community Association, the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, Self Help Hunger Program, Phat Beets Produce, Oakland Communities United for Equity & Justice (OCUEJ), Memorial Tabernacle Church/Youth Going Green, PLACE for Sustainable Living, RJOY, and the residents of the underpass. Special thanks to the Akonadi Foundation for their support of this event

Feel free to email [email redacted] with questions.