The Albuquerque Asylum Seekers Welcome group, made up of faith and community organization members, has asked St. Mark’s to donate traveling clothes in April.
The sweatpants and shirts will be given to those asylum seekers who arrive here from the southern border on their way to sponsors throughout the country. So far this year three buses of about 50 people each have arrived here from Annunciation House in El Paso and other shelters. They are housed in a local motel for five days for Covid 19 testing and isolation before they travel on. They are fed and given travel clothes for the next leg of their journey. Buses are expected at a rate of about one every two weeks or so.
If you choose to donate, the biggest need is for men’s sizes small to medium and girls aged 4-18. A box is in the Narthex for your donations. New or nearly new clothes only, please.
Throughout February and March, St. Mark’s donated enough shoes to shod one whole bus of people with about a dozen pairs left over for the next group. Your generosity, as always, is inspiring.
If you have any questions about this donation drive or the group effort, email Mary Beth Libbey (email her here) or Kate Spielmann (email her here).
