“When you listen to the community, learn from the community, and help the community, you connect to your best self.”
December 2013, at the age of six, Blake Ansari decided to help end poverty by donating a Blake Mini Library to homeless shelters and food banks. Blake Mini Library supports the reading, writing and science literacy of children ages birth to 21 living in homes for runaways, homeless shelters and foster care. On Valentine’s Day 2015, Blake Mini Library donated 6,000 books to Women in Need, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. This 2016 Valentine’s Day recipients of Blake Mini Library are Hamilton Family Center, San Francisco and Riverside Church Food Pantry, New York City.
This year, Susty Kids, Inc. joins Blake Mini Library to help improve the literacy of homeless children in San Francisco.
Our Coast-to-Coast Blake Mini Library book drive officially begins on Monday, January 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
Please join us by donating new and recently new books (no cloth books) to children from birth to age 21. Give children who are homeless a Blake Mini Library.
For additional information contact: blakedesouza@verizon.net or 646-285-1068
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Click for a downloadable Blake Mini Library Flier
Additional Information & Resources:
The rising cost of living and stagnant wages of New York City has resulted in The City having the highest number of children in America living in homeless shelters. Forty percent of shelter residents are children.
In San Francisco, the technology boom has displaced working-families for high income young professionals. San Francisco has the second highest rate of homeless children in the nation. Thirty percent of San Francisco’s homeless are children.
- Opening Doors, updated and amended in 2015, is the nation’s first comprehensive Federal strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Goals include preventing and ending homelessness for families with children and youth in 2020.
https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/USICH_OpeningDoors_Amendment2015_FINAL.pdf
- Coalition for the Homeless State of the Homeless 2015 – New York City
http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SOTH2015.pdf
- 2015 San Francisco Homeless Count Report
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