#WheredowegoBerk - Winter is Coming. Please help.

Please donate to the #WhereDoWeGoBerk Campaign. We are raising money for tents and other winter supplies for the Seabreeze and the I-80 University Underpass homeless encampments.  Each of these encampments experienced increased and repeated Caltrans evictions where they lost tents, storage tubs, and their belongings. Tents provide shelter. Storage tubs provide food protection from the rats. Garbage and waste management mitigate health and safety risks. The residents of these encampments are being proactive by starting their own campaign to improve their living conditions and prepare for winter. We are asking you to help us please. 

KC, one of our elders, who is disabled and cannot walk, moved 7 times in 3 weeks. She lost her tent, mattress and many of her belongings. After Caltrans evictions, she had to sleep under a boat sail on a metal bed frame. Thanks to Todd Jersey, a local Berkeley architect, we purchased a new yurt for KC so that she could have shelter and get her wheelchair easily inside. We still need to weatherproof her Yurt and provide her with other needed supplies. 
42707740_1571088443315944_r.jpegThank you Todd Jersey Architecture 

There are similar stories throughout these encampments and we need many more tents donated. Patricia Moore, another resident, needs a Yurt as well because she cannot move her wheelchair in her tent. She needs daily wound care so we need to provide her with fresh bandages and medical supplies. 
42707740_1571089068686876_r.jpegPatricia Moore in her current tent. She cannot walk and must crawl out of her tent to get into her wheelchair. She cannot roll her wheelchair into her tent so a yurt would give her accessibly and warmth in the winter months. 

Winter is coming! These Berkeley residents need to be self-sufficient because city services cannot provide for all of their needs. They are asking the City of Berkeley for trash pick-up, porta potties, and drinking water. They would also like to purchase heavy duty trash bags and containers.  Help us help them to create a safe, clean, and weather proof environment.

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Our goal is to purchase 50-60 weather proof tents. Unlike when a person goes camping temporarily, these tents will be used as a temporary HOME to get someone through the winter and secure their belongings. The money raised will go toward the purchase of tents and other winter supplies including waterproof tarps. Additionally, some of the money donated will go toward waste and trash management.

A portion of the money raised will provide 30-50 GoGirl's to women so that they can easily use the restroom in uncomfortable spaces. 

Find out more information on the GOGIRL on Amazon. 
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The donated supplies will be distributed throughout the encampments equally.  At the request of the residents, we will set up a donations tent so that other homeless individuals (throughout Berkeley)  can receive the supplies  they need. The donations tent will be run by the unhoused residents themselves, who will work as volunteers, keeping inventory, and equally distributing supplies to all of the individuals living in the encampments.

42707740_1571109659594737_r.jpegOur new Community Donations tent from Amazon. Thank you Sarah W for this contribution!  


The unhoused in Berkeley are uniting to demand an answer to the question: Where do we go? Until they  can find a lawful place to be, please help them protect themselves and the most vulnerable in their community from the cold of winter. There are not enough shelter beds or housing. The most vulnerable are our senior citizens and disabled. These communities care and take care of their most vulnerable. They need our help.  The current solutions are not working. We need immediate solutions for this winter and community building. Please help us.

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For a history of the Where do we go? movement see recent article by JP Masser: An Intersecting Tale: Berkeley's #WhereDoWeGo Movement Stays Fast. 

Please support Street Spirit  and purchase a copy of the October 2019 edition from a homeless vendor in Berkeley.
42707740_1571088535952322_r.jpegPhoto taken by Yessica Prado and Article written by Alastair Boone, published in the October 2019 edition of Street Spirit.

Tent design and photo taken by Suzi Garner.  We LOVE you Suzi! I cannot wait until we get Where do we go? t-shirts with your tents as the photo. 
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Andrea Henson 
Organizer
Berkeley, CA
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