Are you one of those truly kind people who sees the television advertisements for hungry, homeless children starving in Africa or India or poor sorrowful pets that need forever homes and writes a check? So good of you to do so, really.

If I tell you there are starving, homeless children, over 200 of them, here in South Pierce County that have been registered with Family Promise of Pierce County, could you also help out with a few dollars?

Each day, our local Family Promise sends out a short email with how many families have filed, but have not yet been able to receive shelter. Often, along with those emails are short stories of various families about how they ended up in the situation. It is often a job loss, a job injury, a medical condition, or just a series of rotten luck that initially places them in these situations. Otherwise, they are just like you and me and did not have the resources to get through the bad times. Sometimes, there are drugs, alcohol, or mental health issues, but that is not all the cases. I say that from personal experience as I have been there too. In fact, you will find many of the people working at Family Promise have their own firsthand experience.

Today:
Families on the wait list for shelter: 95
Unhoused children 207
Single Males: 5
Single Females: 5
The intake line to help people you know that are in need of shelter is here at this link.

If you are in better times right now, would you please take a moment and help out you very own neighbors in need? Here is the link to donate to Family Promise of Pierce County.

Let’s help our local families get off the street and back into a home of their own. FPPC is working for us and for them, over 150 families have been rehoused in the year and a half they have been operational. 367 were served during the Winter in the warming center. FPPC is serving us all.