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Design for Recovery Participates in Annual "Feed the Homeless"
Midnight Mission
Design for Recovery Participates in Annual "Feed the Homeless"
Midnight Mission
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Design
for Recovery sober living feeds homeless
near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Residents at
Design for Recovery, an all-male sober living located in West
LA, volunteered Saturday at a "Feed the Homeless" event
organized by human services organization The Midnight Mission.
More than 20 volunteers from Design for Recovery distributed
sandwiches, soup, salad, bagels, and other items from 11a.m. to
2p.m. at the event. The effort resulted in nearly 300 meals, all
donated from businesses like Starbucks and Foster Farms, served
to the needy in LA's most impoverished neighborhood.
"It was a great experience," Design for Recovery resident Pete
Nannini said. "It's eye-opening to see a place like Skid Row. I
never saw anything like it before where I'm from (Florida). It's
a reminder to be grateful and do your part to give back."
The Midnight Mission—founded in 1914 and located in the heart of
Skid Row on San Pedro St.—provides food, shelter, drug and
alcohol recovery services, and educational training to the
area's homeless. Volunteers are welcome to join its daily events
to help those in need.
"I plan to go back," Nannini said. "We need more places like
that."
Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of
homeless people in the United States, with estimates ranging
from 5,000 to 8,000 people living without food or shelter in the
4.3 square mile neighborhood.
About Design for Recovery
Design for Recovery is a structured, 12 Step-based sober living
with residences in the LA neighborhoods of Mar
Vista and Westchester. Its program centers on the principles of
honesty, integrity, accountability, responsibility, and service
to rebuild the lives of men desperate to break free from the
chains of addiction. Its services include one-on-one mentoring,
group therapy, employment support, money management, and family
outreach. The overarching goal for residents at Design for
Recovery is to create a new life in sobriety built on a sturdy
foundation of principles, service, moral uprightness, and
continued self-development. http://www.designforrecovery.com/
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