For more than 10 years, folks have come out to the Daybreak Day Resource Center to sleep outside and show solidarity with the homeless.
This year marks the 11th annual Macon Sleepout event. The day of the sleepout is Thursday, February 29 and will be held at 174 Walnut Street in downtown Macon. If you can’t make it to the sleepout, you can still contribute through the link below.
13WMAZ will feature stories starting on Monday, February 26 in the morning show about homelessness in Central Georgia and how you can help.
We take a look at what life is life for people with no place to go and how Daybreak offers support to them. We will also look at what the community is doing to help get people off the streets.
Every weekday in Macon, an average of 100 homeless men and women visit Daybreak to receive services that help them overcome the immediate crisis of homelessness. These services include:
- Housing and housing placement
- Case management
- Breakfast and snacks
- Laundry facilities
- Showers
- Free health clinic
- Access to phones and computers
- Transportation assistance
- Enrichment classes
Here is the schedule for the sleepout:
Thursday
- 5:30 p.m.: Registration and tent set up
- 6:30 p.m: Dinner
- 7:30 p.m.: Program
- 8:30 p.m: Head to tents and campfires
Friday
- 7:00 a.m.: Breakfast
WAYS TO VOLUNTEER AT DAYBREAK
Sign up to volunteer at the link below.
Volunteers at Daybreak do the following things:
- Moving furniture
- Cleaning Laundry
- Serving food
- Cleaning rooms
- Sorting clothes/donations
- Organizing special events
- Connecting program participants to services and resources