FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) – As temperatures decrease across South Florida, homeless organizations have stepped up and shared supplies to those most affected by the cold snap in multiple locations.<\/p>\n
With temperatures dropping Saturday night, the Homeless Voice organization in Fort Lauderdale organized and handed out supplies to those in need.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are all full of shirts, pants,\u201d said Sean Cononie from the Homeless Voice organization. <\/p>\n
Cononie spent Saturday night handing out supplies to homeless individuals who lined up outside a truck full of supplies.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s some water, here\u2019s your snacks, you sure you don\u2019t want a couple blankets?\u201d said Conoie to an unhoused individual.<\/p>\n
In downtown Fort Lauderdale, many people do not have a place to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot everybody goes to shelters, because sometimes they\u2019re overloaded, they can\u2019t get in, it\u2019s too late, they show up, maybe they have some discipline problems,\u201d said Cononie.<\/p>\n
Cononie said that it\u2019s important to keep them warm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got supplies for the really frail, sick people, we\u2019re gonna give them the heavier gear, the coats, the warmups, the sweats, the foiled blankets from [Federal Emergency Management Agency].\u201d he said. \u201cCute little thing here, this lady, 99 or 98-years-old, made all these scarves, I guess, took a couple years, and we\u2019re gonna pass them out, I think it\u2019s a miracle that woman did this, at her age,\u201d<\/p>\n
In downtown Miami, Narciso Munoz, the president of Hermanos de la Calle and his team of volunteers, found homeless residents to offer assistance, and offered help for them to get indoors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanna help you, I don\u2019t want you to sleep in the streets,\u201d said Munoz.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have cots in shelters, we have beds in hotels, wherever, so we are going to try to see everyone in the streets and offer them a place to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Camillus House in Miami also prepared to receive more people in their shelters as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that many of them will take the invitation, come in, get dropped off here, walk in, the doors are open to help them,\u201d said Sam Gill, Senior Vice President of Camillus House.<\/p>\n
The Salvation Army organization in Broward County made every possible room in its facility available to place cots.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna try to put, probably 70, maybe a little bit more, tonight and we actually started on Monday,\u201d said<\/p>\n
Volunteers said this was much more than giving supplies and a place to stay. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor them to not be invisible, is very important. They have names, people like you, me, everyone else, they have a name,\u201d said Sallye Schwartz. \u201cWhen you learn their name, and every time you said hi, and every time you use their name, it helps them, you know. It\u2019s not just about food, shelter, it\u2019s also about recognition, that they\u2019re a person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials of the Homeless Voice will continue to make their rounds to make sure people are safe and covered.<\/p>\n
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