“More than 10,000 people in the Atlanta area experience homelessness on an given night. Over 40% of Atlanta’s homeless population are women and children.”
In order to help combat this, Fully Furnished Ministries works closely with The Drake House, a non-profit in Roswell, GA that provides a lifeline of supportive housing and enrichment programs for single mothers and their children experiencing homelessness in north metro Atlanta.
Fully Furnished Ministries has been in partnership with The Drake House since 2010. To date, we have provided furnishings to more than 100 families through them! In fact, in September, we had the opportunity to help one woman and her children in The Drake House by providing a sofa, love seat, coffee table, two end tables, a dining table with four chairs, two computer desks w/chairs and a dresser.
Dianne Berry from The Drake House shares with us, "We involve members of our community in the effort to keep single mothers and their children united under one roof as they work toward self-sufficiency. We are the only agency in the region offering a private crisis-housing program. Every year, our private housing serves two apartment buildings with 50 families and 100 children, and whenever we have a need for furnishings for these women and children, FFM is there and ready to help!"
Dianne Berry
Operations Manager, The Drake House
Find out more about The Drake House and the amazing programs they have and ways you can help here on their website: https://thedrakehouse.org/.