RICHMOND, Va. — Blessing Warriors RVA, a nonprofit serving Richmond’s unhoused community for the past seven years, reports a dramatic increase in people seeking assistance in recent weeks.
The organization, which operates almost seven days a week, provides hot meals, packed lunches, clothes, tents, hygiene products and sometimes even temporary housing to those in need.
“Financially, it’s been pretty hard for us to maintain as soon as it comes in, it goes out,” Tonya Fobbs said. “We were serving probably close to 75 to 100 per night, and that has almost doubled, almost tripled.”…