The importance of a good sleeping bag
Posted on November 28th, 2009 in homelessness
Urban Ministry estimated it served 4,000 meals Thursday.
Sam Wood appreciates the warm food and kindness of the volunteers.
He has held retail and odd jobs his whole working life, but when he lost his last job and got divorced, he found himself on the streets for nearly two years.
He jokes over pumpkin pie in the Urban Ministry’s cafeteria that life outdoors wasn’t that bad.
“As long as you’ve got a good sleeping bag,” he says smiling.
He lives in an apartment in the Smith Homes public housing community. He says he never thought he’d find himself in this situation and says it’s hard to explain it to his old friends.
“I tell them but I’m not sure if they really understand,” Wood said.
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StreetWatch accepts donations of sleeping bags and distributes them to homeless people who are sleeping outside in Greensboro.
