See Beautiful Grant Applicant: Love Beyond Walls

The feature below is brought to you by Love Beyond Walls, an organization that is in the running to receive a See Beautiful Grant. For more information about all of our giving initiatives, please click here. 

To learn more about Love Beyond Walls, please visit their website page: here.

A movement of doers

Love Sinks In:
Love Sinks In is a project that is keeping people experiencing homelessness safe from COVID-19. Love Beyond Walls builds mobile sinks and fills them with clean water and soap to place in areas densely populated with people currently experiencing homelessness. Per the CDC’s recommendation of best practices for COVID-19 prevention, hand washing is at the top of the list; however, individuals experiencing homelessness do not have access to soap and water. Love Beyond Walls is ensuring all people have the access to the basic needs that will protect them from COVID-19..

The Love Center:
Each week, people show up at our doors for all different reasons. Some walk miles to receive groceries because they are food insecure. Some come for haircuts from the Mobile Makeover Bus. Some come to wash their clothes because they can’t afford a laundromat.

Others knock on our doors because they need clothes to go to interviews and church. Some come to attend an educational workshop so they can learn a skill and have a better chance at finding employment. And some show up at our door because they have no other place to go.

Most times these people have walked miles because they need the resources we provide. More than just physical items, these people lack community, opportunity, and hope. Whatever brings them to us and however they get there, we’re committed to serving them exactly as they are.

The Dignity Museum:

The Dignity Museum shares the stories of the forgotten, while presenting the unjust causes for the disparity in resource allocation. The stories of those who were born into poverty, those who became homeless as adults, the kids holding cardboard signs at the stoplight, and their collective fight to beat their circumstances.

Through interactive technology, research, storytelling, exhibits, and thought-provoking questions, visitors will confront their ideas of homelessness and what it takes to escape it.

The museum is designed to take the guest through a journey to promote a hopeful future of equality, opportunity, and justice.

A world full of equity, justice, and inclusivity is a beautiful world. Love Beyond Walls is making the world a more beautiful place for ALL of us to live in.

Submitted by: Morgan Wright