Clients with Donated Clothing

Donated Clothing

Atheists Helping the Homeless DC receives many donated clothes. The items are gently used and are made from materials that don’t need ironing. Our clients can wash them anywhere, even in a sink and they will dry with minimal wrinkles even as they are worn. Knits are good, but some synthetic fabrics are good too…

Hunger and Homelessness

Hunger and Homelessness

Food Insecurity and Homelessness Facing food insecurity impacts our mental and physical health. One study shows that mothers of school-aged children facing hunger are 56% more likely to face PTSD and 53% more likely to face severe depression. There is a strong relationship between hunger and chronic diseases. Food insecurity also changes the way we…

Guatemala

Guatemala

The man on the left is a volunteer. He helps us distribute hygiene items to people experiencing homelessness. The man on the left is homeless. He has a family and an apartment in Virginia, but he has been looking for work in Washington DC. He had been sleeping in his car for a week or…

Homeless Woman

Homelessness in Maryland

Estimates vary, but one estimate purports that over 30,000 people experience homelessness in Maryland each year.  Although Maryland is one of the nation’s wealthiest states, over 50% of impoverished Marylanders live in “deep poverty”, meaning that their annual income is less than half of the federally defined poverty level, driving homelessness. The 2023 Point-in-Time (PIT)…