Wilmington Warming Shelter shatters previous record: more unhoused than ever need help in cold temperatures

Kelly Kenoyer: So you opened the warming shelter in Wilmington last month for six consecutive nights. How did that go?. Jamie Lee Thompson: So it went really well, in a lot of ways. Our numbers were way, way up. Of course, there’s always bumps and hiccups: there’s plumbing, there’s things that we have to deal with along the way. But the number of volunteers who came through, the number of donations that came through: financial and material. People came from all over the place to help and serve, including our guests who were there those nights. Overall, it was a really beautiful thing.

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