An overview:

The Marie Atkins Night shelter is run by the Poor Relief Department of the KSAC. The shelter caters for approximately 100 persons.

Persons come in and sleep at night and return to the streets in the day. There are people who come in regularly and some who are iterant visitors. The shelter sleeps 20 females and 30 males in the
building. Another 25 at least sleep in the yard each night. 

Breakfast is prepared in the mornings, the Salvation Army provides lunch for the people on the street and the Council for the Aged supplies 20 dinners each night. These sources do not supply /provide food on
weekends. Different organisations have undertaken to supply meals on Saturdays and Sundays. Sometimes they come already prepared, at other times it is raw material that is supplied and the staff of the shelter
do the cooking.

The shelter is in need of female underwear especially panties.
Male pants, chemicals: wax/floor polish, bleach, soap powder, disinfectant

People to assist them on a Sunday.
The installation of their washing machine.
Aid with the Birthday Club.
To take people on outings.

There are two children in the shelter. There is a person who was recently assisted to get a house through the shelter. One of the residents, Ethel Green, has received an award for five years of long
and faithful service to the Sanitation department. 

This is not a long term solution to the street peoples
problems.

What we can do? 

Birthday party, chemicals, clothes, visitations?