Softer Streets

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Softer Streets We provide durable, water-resistant, insulated, easily portable sleeping mats to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness.

Amy La Porte began Softer Streets Inc. as a passion project to help those in her own downtown neighborhood. An accomplished skier and high-mountain climber, Amy is no stranger to sleeping perched on snowy mountains, and knows the value of quality camping mats to counter the effects of hypothermia. Climbers and backcountry skiers live by the convection principle: If they have only one item to use for warmth while they sleep, they put it on the ground – not over their body. This prevents heat from being drawn away from the body in a never-ending, potentially fatal cycle. In the winter of 2016, Amy’s heart broke to see people sleeping outside her apartment building with nothing more than cardboard, newspaper or thin fabric between them and the concrete. So she used her own money to buy them sleeping mats. Months after handing out those original mats, she still sees them slung over the shoulders of people who are now sleeping a little easier.

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101 Marietta Street NW #3600
Atlanta, GA
30303

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