Dozens of volunteers at the San Diego Hillcrest LGBT Center on Centre Street helped organize hygiene kits for homeless and displaced LGBTQIA+ youth.
On Saturday, dozens of volunteers showed up to the San Diego Hillcrest LGBT Center on Centre Street to help organize 500 hygiene kits for homeless and displaced LGBTQ IA+ youth.
"This is why I do that," Gregory said."If they don't have that community, any peace I can be to give them a piece of love, support, anything like that, to know that they matter and that we care."Each hygiene kit has everyday essentials like toothpaste, a toothbrush, deodorant and lotion, among other items. These kits will be sent to different organizations in San Diego to then be distributed to homeless youth.
Henslee is grateful for the friends that he's made over the years while volunteering his time, but he's even more grateful for the important work he and his colleagues get to do."Many of these youth are sometimes ostracized from their families when they come out, and they leave their home with nothing but maybe a backpack," Henslee said.
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