This Church Lets The Homeless Sleep Peacefully And Also Gives Them Blankets And Hygiene Products

Thanks to the Gubbio Project, many among the unfortunate have had nights where sleep was plenty and the true meaning of a fresh start is met.

St. Boniface church in San Francisco has been letting homeless people sleep peacefully in the pews and not have to worry about weather or violence. The Gubbio Project has special services held within the church for those who have no home to call their own.

The Gubbio Project gives out about 150 blankets per month, an average of 100 pairs of socks per week, and 75 hygiene kits per week as well.

A service also provided to those seeking safety is the Chaplaincy services. A service where Interfaith Chaplains are available 5 hours a day, 3 days each week to provide somewhat of an therapeutic session.

Some of these people spend so much of their time alone with no one to talk to or hear their voice that in offering a service of deep listening extends one's hands so much. Many of the times a lot of them know there isn't much to change their situation but they still want someone to hear their stories or hear their cries. If only for that brief moment, someone actually cared enough to hear them out.

Down below I copied and pasted some info on The Gubbio Project from their own website.

HISTORY OF THE GUBBIO PROJECT
ORIGIN.

The Gubbio Project was co-founded in 2004 by community activists Shelly Roder and Father Louis Vitale as a non-denominational project of St. Boniface Neighborhood Center located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in response to the increasing numbers of homeless men and women in need of refuge from the streets. In 2007, with the exception of the Gubbio Project, St. Boniface Neighborhood Center ceased its operations. As a result the organization applied for and received permission from the State of California for its name to be legally changed to the Gubbio Project, continuing to operate as a 501(c) 3 non-profit, offering respite and refuge for thousands of people in the heart of the Tenderloin, while supporting connection and understanding between the housed and un-housed.

STORY.
The Gubbio Project is named for an Italian town where, according to legend, St. Francis negotiated a peace agreement between frightened townsfolk and a hungry wolf. Francis brokered a deal between the two parties in conflict by recognizing that with communication they could find common ground. In San Francisco's Tenderloin and Mission neighborhoods, working poor people live next to desperately poor people and sometimes misunderstandings and conflicts occur. The Gubbio Project is a creative response to this situation—helping housed parishioners and visitors of the church connect with their unhoused neighbors. The Gubbio Project believes that by creating opportunities for these two groups to interact and care for each other's needs, the Tenderloin and Mission neighborhoods will be strengthened.

https://www.thegubbioproject.org/about-gubbio

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