Can you make a difference preventing and eliminating homelessness in our community? We live in a beautiful community and it is sometimes all too easy to forget that there exists a level of poverty which many of us rarely encounter or cannot really even imagine. It is difficult to imagine that EVERY year, people in our community die while homeless. It is almost impossible to comprehend that AT LEAST 140 kids in the Nashua School District are homeless! It is difficult to comprehend the pain of not knowing where the next meal is coming from. And it is difficult to know how it must feel, not only to be without a stable home, but at the same time to be suffering from anxiety, depression, or schizophrenia, or perhaps to be addicted to heroin.

On September 23rd, it is YOUR CHANCE to join United Way in a unique, experience as we sleep-out in front of the Community College right on Amherst Street. We will learn together about the issues AND solutions of homelessness. Community experts will help lead the conversation so that each of us will come away better prepared to help end this problem. We will all sleep in a box and be a little hungry... a little uncomfortable. Perhaps it will rain. There will be cars driving by. For a brief moment, we will feel a small piece of the discomfort that many of our fellow citizens experience day in and day out.

We invite YOU to join us in this event. Please click on the links at the left to become a participant, donate to the event, or learn more by downloading the brochure.

With warmest regards,

Mike Apfelberg

President, United Way of Greater Nashua