BLANKET TAMPA BAY
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Mission Statement
Blanket Tampa Bay provides blankets and hygiene products to the less fortunate in Tampa FL. We hope to provide some sense of dignity by building an Urban Rest Stop where the homeless and working poor can go to take a shower and wash their clothes.
About This Cause
Blanket Tampa Bay was started 3 years ago when the church I was attending gave each family $100 with the idea of doing something good and coming back together in January to talk about what we did and how we used the money. I told my husband I wanted to use the money to buy blankets for the homeless. In the meantime I stopped off at Trinity Café who serves meals to the homeless every day, to meet my friend Cindy Davis who was the Director at the time and asked her how many people they serve every day, Cindy said about 285 people. I was amazed and said, “What if I collect about 300 blankets to pass out on Christmas Eve? Cindy said that would be great! When I told my husband I wanted to collect 300 blankets he said: “where are you going to get that many blankets”? So I created a Facebook page and received blankets from Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona and received 308! That Christmas, as promised we passed out our blankets to the guests at Trinity Café.