WHY
No other known group or agency are currently addressing the emergency subsistence and survival needs of these identified high risk populations. The broad array of comprehensive services provided at our Safe Harbor and Port of Refuge is geared to this difficult and often un-reached group of people in need.
They are members of the human race and nonetheless in need of a Safe Harbor & Port of Refuge that often helps save their lives.
No one will be swallowed up and lost in the system.
No one will be a number waiting on a line to plead for help.
This may sound a bit overdramatic to some however we have sadly buried some of those who could not make it for a variety of reasons. Morticians have given SHIP the small bags containing the worldly remains of the homeless and ask SHIP to hold them in case anyone wishes to claim them sometime.