My Walk-Through at the Midnight Mission, Skid Row

The Midnight Mission has provided a myriad of services to the people of
Skid Row and the greater Los Angeles area. Our objective is to work with homeless individuals and families to help remove obstacles to self-sufficiency, while ensuring that immediate needs like food, shelter, and clothing are met. We operate a drug and alcohol recovery program that offers a bridge to self-sufficiency through counseling, education, job training and placement. We also provide safe transitional housing to homeless families at our Family Housing Complex. Our objective is to remove the obstacles for these homeless men, women and children who seek our support. Our services are made possible through the support of our generous donors.

I had originally learned of the Midnight Mission through a screening of the movie “Skid Row” at the 2008 Pan African Film Festival, where Orlando Ward and Pras (from the Fugees) were doing a Q&A session after the movie. Since then, I had been wanting to get involved and later found them on Facebook.

Through my getting involved with them, I have been learning more and more about the real problem(s) related to homelessness in Los Angeles, and why it’s still an issue today.

I did my much anticipated walk-through this late Summer at the Midnight Mission.  I was planning with a few others to do something there for the Holidays.  Unfortunately, that never happened, but I was still determined to do something at the Midnight Mission and was therefore able to gather a group of volunteers to serve food there on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. So here are the pictures of the Midnight Mission. I’m excited about this coming Sunday!