𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐨: 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭

There remain tremendous gaps in services for indigent people in Chico. We’ve talked a lot about access to food following the closure of the Jesus Center Kitchen, but winter is here and hundreds of people also don’t have access to warm, dry shelter, clothing, or bedding. For people on the streets this is a particularly miserable, difficult, and too often deadly time of the year. If you can afford to help out, please consider donating warm clothing and warm weather gear. You can bring items to the Downtown Plaza on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9am, or on Sundays at noon. You can also donate funds to their efforts using Venmo: @Sisarie-Sherry

From the Chico ER:

“A pair of cold feet need socks to stay warm in the winter.

Patrick Newman and his group Chico Friends on the Street came to the Chico City Plaza on Nov. 14 distributing supplies to homeless people. It’s getting colder outside and the advocacy group brought extra supplies to help bear the winter temperatures.

People helped themselves to free socks, sanitary products, coffee, donuts, pizza, hot coffee and water. Newman and several volunteers have shown up at the plaza every Sunday afternoon for more than 5 years and this time they handed out extra clothes from a box.

Chico Friends on the Street will be at the plaza every Sunday at noon through the winter and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 9 a.m. to give out coffee. Newman said these types of material donations are part of his larger effort to advocate for homeless people in Chico.

“Our mission is to try to promote human rights for people who are in our public spaces,” Newman said. “What are those human rights, how are they being violated?”