Operation Chillout Winter Outreach has been keeping our volunteers very busy over the past few weeks! The team has been receiving your donated supplies and packing up approximately 200 Winter Gear Backpacks each week. Completed backpacks are filled with thick cozy socks, warm winter hats, ski gloves, zip up hoodies and thermal long underwear sets. While keeping within our $25 budget, we try to make every backpack unique by including different color items, handwritten inspirational notes and bonus items such as hand knit scarves.
OCO delivers backpacks to locations where homeless people gather, including food pantries; soup kitchens; temporary shelters and places where some sleep in the open in abandoned buildings, parks and alleyways.
Together, we have made wonderful progress toward our outreach goals. Thank you for helping us to serve our local homeless community during the during the darkest and coldest days of the year.
