Our Rotary on the Road in October was a visit to Hillcrest Transitional Housing. We toured the youth building in Kansas City, Kansas and made great connections. This organization is a leader in solving homelessness in the KC Metro. Their process provides full support in a structured environment that teaches self-sufficiency for achieving goals of permanent housing, employment, education, money management and wellbeing.

 

One key need we identified: In order to save funds, the residents in the program are encouraged to pack their lunches as opposed to getting fast food while they're out working or at school. Hillcrest could use soft-sided lunch bags and ice packs and tumblers/water bottles for the residents. If you are interested in donating any of those items that you have that are in good condition, or can purchase any of those items new, we'd like to gather a few to give to Hillcrest by the end of the month. They currently have need for 8-10, but could use more for future residents if we'd like to do more! Thanks in advance!