Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center Receives Walmart Grant

For Immediate Release

Contact: Rosalind J. Swift

ep4p.eshw@gmail.com

860-741-2455

Enfield, CT, March 15, 2021 – The Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center was awarded a Walmart Community Grant this month in amount of $1500.00 to assist the organization in serving the homeless in Enfield.

Kabir Kumari, Sr. Director, Community Giving for Walmart stated, “You are part of a long history of Walmart’s commitment to giving back to the communities where we operate. In fact, Mrs. Helen Walton, the wife of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, used to say, "It's not what you gather, but what you scatter, that tells what kind of life you have lived."

The East Windsor Walmart Super Store manager, Bill Fenlon, received the grant application in February, and quickly approved the grant for ESHWS’S 20121 needs

Walmart’s generous donation will allow ESHWC to provide some of the items needed to operate our outreach and engagement center for our homeless residents of Enfield, Connecticut during the coldest times of the year, and will allow the organization to finish strong this year.

Rosalind Swift, Chair of the Communications Committee said, “The COVID -19 pandemic has produced a unique set of public health challenges, especially for the homeless. Enfield is one of many towns in the state and across the country experiencing an increase in homelessness due to the Pandemic”

The Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center will be operating two nights per week at64 Pearl Street (St Patrick’s Church), Wednesdays and Sundays, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., during the winter months of January 3,-March 31, 2021 as Outreach and Engagement center to assist our homeless here in Enfield during this Covid-19 pandemic.

The Walmart Community Grant Program provides grants to support the unique needs of local communities in the service areas of Walmart and Sam's Club stores, and its corporate distribution centers. To learn more about Walmart’s Community Grants go to https://walmart.org/how-we-give/local-community-grants

To learn more about the Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center, to volunteer, or to donate funds or other items, contact Rosalind Swift at ep4p.eshw@gmail.com or Lorraine Creedon 860-749-0931. Checks should be made payable to Enfield People for People, with Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center in the memo, and mail P.O. Box 165, Enfield CT 06083. Also, please like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/EPfPSHWC/Enfieldsafeharbor.org.Visit our website at https://enfieldsafeharbor.org/.