In 2019 there were 5,593 homeless students in the District, up from about 3,000 students five years earlier.
They plan to stay involved at the new sites, and also develop programming for the hundreds of children being housed in hotels.
You can mentor and tutor children, distribute produce, serve meals, plan events, and more at these local non-profits.
The Homeless Children’s Playtime Project unveiled a new space to serve teens and pre-teens sat the crumbling family homeless shelter.
“While families are here, we want to make sure that there’s a safe place for the children to use.”
The bill would require the city to “act with great haste.”
The bill would provide service referrals and immunity to victims of child sex trafficking.
“It could be a really powerful project,” Playtime Project executive director Jamila Larson says.
