We all know people who needed help

   Dear Friends,

      "My wife and 3 children are arriving today and we have no place we can afford to stay."  He said.  Losing his housing really hurt, when after 3 years of waiting, his wife and three young children finally arrived.  
   This was the call from a young husband.  Restructuring suddenly forced him from employment and housing.  We quickly welcomed them until they were able to find a place.

     We house families as needed since children become part of the stranded problem here.

Alexandria House, helps sort out these predicaments.  This money Alexandria House raises helps stranded on the island get back on their feet.  Thank you for the part you play in the service we get to provide to people when they suffer painful setbacks in life.  

            We've been helping people, when it seems that no one else is willing or wants to help for over 25 years with minimal funding.  I am humbly asking every one of you to continue to dig as deep as you can and donate so we can make this continue for the next 25 years and beyond. 


You can also donate at Dutch Harbor, AK  Key Bank “Alexandria House account ending with 82.”  


Alexandria House has been working with local agencies in Dutch Harbor/Unalaska for the last ten years. 
 
                                     A big problem here is housing and stranded.   We can do both!   

We are excited to begin the second phase of developing the old Elbow Room property into a group of offices and apartments, whose rents will fund the work we do to help people who find themselves in our community stranded and in crisis. 

Since our beginning, we have provided more than 6,000 face-to face sit down meetings with people in crisis, and provided safe shelter for over 500 individuals. 

We are grateful for the many businesses who have generously donated materials, shipping, storage, heavy equipment, and skilled labor. 

A generous donor has offered an extra $10,000 once the first $100,000 is raised. 

The Federal Government has designated Alexandria House AK , Inc. as a Public Charity.  Donations are tax deductible and greatly appreciated. 

Our Mission Statement:

"With God's help, to provide a warm bed, a helping hand and a kind word as we would to Christ himself."

Why help “ALEXANDRIA HOUSE” addition with construction costs? 
Your donations make it possible for us to have the funds to help people like these: 

A –Man in his thirties, got the call while working here on the island that his son had died and his wife had left him. Within a month he lost his job and was robbed of the $1,000 he had left; leaving him totally stranded. In the bottomless hole of depression, we made ourselves available and committed ourselves and all our resources to be there for him and with him till he could see hope again. 

M- Twenty something who was flown out here by her boyfriend, who then beat her up and kicked her out with no money, food or options. We were able to get her into a safe place and within a few days fly her back to her family. 

I - Left Sacramento at the age of 19 so he could earn money to support his younger brother, who was trying to stay in school in spite of his mother’s drug addiction, and their homelessness. We welcomed him and worked with him, till he got a steady job on the docks and could afford to fly his 15 yr old brother up to live with him and finish high school.

This is the end of the line.  The Aleutian chain.  If you are stuck here, you are stuck. If the weather “Comes down” as they say, it can be days before planes can get in and out. Dutch Harbor and Unalaska are connected by a bridge. Many who come here have burned their last bridge. Desperate, family depending on them, stressed, hopeless, overwhelmed. The freezing water under that bridge has tempted more than one. Thankfully with your support we can continue to help. 

Here on Unalaska Island, here in the Alaskan waters of the Bering Sea, the weather creates difficulty when you do not have immediate housing for the night.  The problem is that it snows sideways, sleet sideways, wind-driven-rain that soaks you in a matter of minutes, 800 miles from the nearest train or bus, or hospital for that matter. There is no YMCA, or hostel. No emergency shelter for men.

Helping stranded people here for more than 30 years, many who told me things like “about to jump off the bridge” into the cold Bering Sea because they had reached the end and failed again and could not face family and friends again without money or hope or a place to go.

Just who are we talking about?

R- 65 yrs old, attempting to break the Guinness Book of World Records, ship wrecked his small sail boat and lost everything. The Coast Guard rescued him after eight days surviving on the uninhabited part of nearby Akutan Island and brought him to us. After two weeks he was able to safely fly to Seattle and find another boat to continue his journey around the world. 

J- Won a lottery in his home country of Uzbekistan for the privilege to emigrate to the U.S. He was dropped off here by the fishing boat he was working on with nothing but his personal gear, and his limited English. Sores on both legs became badly infected because he was never dry, and the raingear necessary for his deck job was not allowing him to heal. We were able to care for all his housing and personal needs till he was well. His strong work ethic and great attitude landed him a successful position on an oil rig. 

K- Eight years old when he found the note in the bathroom his parents left for him, when they left. He lived on the streets until his grandfather found him. The next few months were better, but then his grandfather died. Alone again at the age of 10 he did what he needed to survive, and ended up with a drug habit. He spent his last dollars on a plane ticket to Dutch Harbor because he was promised a job on a fishing boat. 18 years old, in Dutch Harbor only to find out no job existed and no one knew what he was talking about. We were honored to come to his aide and provide a family of sorts with housing and resources to get a real job on a real boat.

D- 40-something came as a refugee from Africa with his wife and 5 children. He left New York because he couldn’t find work. The company that hired him ran on to hard times and had to let him go with no ticket home and no money. With a safe place to sleep, and food to eat, he was able to work as a longshoreman and save his money until he made enough to go home with something for his family.

P- From Mexico City who was told he could just come to Dutch Harbor on a visitor’s visa and would be able to work on a fishing boat and make big bucks. He spent everything to get here and was in a state of shock and anguish to find out no one would even listen to him without a valid work visa. We are only 800 miles from Anchorage but to walk up to the counter and buy a ticket just that far costs on the average $700. Mexico seems a million miles away when you only have $30. We were honored to befriend and help him with housing, food, and in time put together a ticket back home to Mexico City.

R- African immigrant with limited English, employed by a local processing plant, was the victim of violence when her husband was murdered after work by a couple of men and thrown down a set of metal stairs. Because there is no mortuary or crime lab here, his body was flown to Anchorage. She was completely broken and lost as to what to do. She needed lots of love and support. We were so honored to stick with her through the trauma and disrespect she faced, network with other care providers in Anchorage and to help her to fly there to bury her husband.

S- Lost it all because of drugs and alcohol. He returned from treatment and needed a place to work from until he earned back credibility needed to be rehired within the area he had a degree. After demonstrating that he could be trusted, he was given a second chance, and is doing well.

Many are stranded at the airport during blizzards and the hotel is full. Others are left stranded at the dock as the boat just left without them. Others try to make due, camping out in a wet, unheated cement bunker leftover from WWII with no hope of change.

A building featured in Playboy magazine as one of the most dangerous bar in the USA is now dedicated to giving people hope, and practical help by “…providing a warm bed, a helping hand, and a kind word as we would to Christ Himself.”