Rosie’s Place and Woods-Mullen Shelter Collaborate to Strengthen Safety Net for City’s Homeless Women
A donation from Rosie's Place allowed for newly renovated bathroom facilities for the female guests at the Woods-Mullen Shelter in the South End.
Two South End organizations dedicated to improving the lives of homeless women in Boston collaborated recently to provide improvements to a Massachusetts Avenue emergency homeless shelter. Thanks to a donation from Rosie's Place, a South End non-profit, the Woods-Mullen Shelter located at 784 Mass. Ave was able to renovate the bathroom facilities for the female guests. The shelter is owned and operated by the Boston Public Health Commission and provides housing for up to 66 women. Beth Grand, Co-Director of Homeless Services at the Boston Public Health Commission, said in a statement that a nice bathroom is an easy thing to take for granted when you have stable housing, but it makes all the difference in the world when you don’t. “The …
Sara Jacobi
9:04 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
very true, jshore! I usually donate to the Salvation Army but one of these shelters might be a better idea for the items you mentioned. more ›