Category: Events

Have you ever had questions about what mental health services are available for the homeless?

The West End Library is hosting an information session where you can hear from the Office of Homeless Services and DC Department of Mental Health. Feel free to swing by on Thursday, December 8 at 11am and learn more about what services they provide!

Thousands showed up for the last big Help the Homeless walk on the Mall this past Saturday, November 19th.  Fannie Mae will continue to host the annual walk but it will be mini-walks in the future.  The weather was perfect.  A little cold at the start but warming up nicely as we strolled between the Tidal Basin and the Potomac River and then past the new Martin Luther King Memorial.  What a day!  Thanks to all who showed up for GMC. Thanks to all who showed up.

This is the last day to register for the last big Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walk. This is your last chance to walk down the middle of Independence Avenue flanked by thousands if other souls in support of a dignified solution to homelessness. We need you.

Register, walk, support GMC! Helpthehomeless.org
Register online until 5:00 p.m. Tonight.

Fannie Mae’s Help the Homeless walkathon on the National Mall takes place this Saturday, November 19! This is the last walkathon Fannie Mae will be hosting (the mini-walks will continue next year), so please help us make this last one the most successful one.

The deadline to register online is 5pm on Friday, November 18. If you miss the online registration, you can still walk! Just go to the Event Day Registration located at the Department of Agriculture on Jefferson Drive. Event day registration is $35 for adults ($5 more than the preregistration fee), and $20 for people 25 and under.

Don’t forget to check out the walkathon’s schedule for registration times and a list of entertainment.

I joined the members of Epiphany Catholic Church at a mini-walk for GMC today.  Because of the rain we walked around the sanctuary and parish hall below.   The walk was organized by GMC board member and Epiphany parishioner Wonkook Park along with Father Paul Lee and Father Tom Reilly. The enthusiastic parishioners were prepared for a walk around the neighborhood with signs beseeching, honk for the homeless and they were not muted by the weather.   As we walked around the sanctuary Wonkook would yell out “Help the Homeless!”  The crowd responded, “Help the Homeless!”

Father Tom would yell out “Honk, Honk”,  The willing congregants would respond, “Honk, Honk.”  And so it went.

Thank you Epiphany Church.  You guys are great!

Gunther