EASTON, Pa. – Stacey Jackson and a team of volunteers are on an all-night mission in Easton’s Scott Park.<\/p>\n
“I always thought that God gave me two hands. One for myself and one for someone else,” said Jackson.<\/p>\n
It is the first-ever Breaking Day.<\/p>\n
Jackson and her team are helping anyone with nowhere to call home.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of like giving up my bed for one night to make myself uncomfortable to make other people comfortable,” said Jackson.<\/p>\n
She is handing out everything from meals to free hygiene and self care bags.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to get cold out really, really soon. Even tonight it’s raining, so we have tents, we have heaters,” said Jackson.<\/p>\n
There are also movies for people to enjoy.<\/p>\n
“The first time I did it was in North Carolina and it was successful and I said maybe we can go from city to city and I live here in Easton and I said you know what, we’re going to do it here,” said Jackson.<\/p>\n
Jackson said she is starting see younger people experience homelessness and she would like more shelters to be built in the area.<\/p>\n
“And my thoughts are how are they homeless? How is a teenager homeless? But we live in a different day in age. We don’t know the reasons, we don’t know the reasons why,” said Jackson.<\/p>\n
One thing she said she and her team certainly know is how they can offer a helping hand on this night.<\/p>\n
“Whoever walks these streets from tonight to tomorrow morning, we plan to keep them warm, keep them happy,” said Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Stacey Jackson and a team of volunteers are on an all-night mission in Easton’s Scott…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-35567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}