01/25/2026
God's good morning blessings to you!🙏🏽
Heavy on our mind are those folks we couldn't convince to go to shelter, or that we had no supplies left for. The mentally ill, the addicted, the underhoused, the elderly and disabled...please keep them in prayer.🙏🏽
We were out at 8am yesterday, and the last of our outreach and drive team didn't stop until about 10pm, because conditions were getting dangerous.❄️
We fielded calls from all of our extended mutual aid family and our message is "get to warm shelter." That could mean the one Tia's house, a hotel room, Church Under the Bridge, Corazon, the Impact Center on Poplar and N. Zarzamora, la Ultima Llamada at Mickeljohn and N. Zarzamora, or Last Chance Ministries at Brady and South Zarzamora. We just do not have enough hand warmers, emergency blankets, gloves or hats to protect from this type of cold and rain.🥶
I was asked last night "What can I do to help?"❓⁉️
And my answer is "Cash is King." Unfortunately, we live in capitalism and we need money to continue to buy people hot meals, hot drinks, hot soups, dollar tree socks (these work as gloves or long sleeves) and anything else we can buy to get folks safe.🙏🏽
Now is not the time to try and deliver blankets or jackets to places. NOW is the time to share those resources directly with people in your neighborhood that look underdressed or unhoused. Offer them your extra beanies, scarves or gloves; you can always buy more, or less, and just keep your favorite pair.🧤
We've been warning people for 2 weeks that this cold emergency would be here. We have handed out hundreds of jackets and blankets, maybe thousands of gloves, hot hands and hats. We've been telling people to save up for a hotel room, or to call their families and prepare to be in someone else's space.🛌🏽
The only people that we couldn't convince were the mentally ill, that maybe didn't understand hypothermia. We spent all day delivering hot chocolate, hot coffee, and buying hot meals for people while we had these continued conversations about the freeze.🥶
If you see someone sitting inside a restaurant with only a coffee and looking out the window to avoid all eye contact, just walk up to them, say hi and introduce yourself and offer to buy them a meal, they probably won't turn it down. The extra calories helps people stay warm and keeps up their immune system, even if it is McDonald's. You may see the unhoused ordering ice cream, that's because the ice cream has the most fat and calories that they need to burn now. (Fact: Ice cream sales sky rocket in winter months.) They may ask you for an ice cream instead of coffee or a meal, just buy it. We aren't judging food choices, we are trying to save lives.💯
We are encouraging people to take a free VIA bus to any warming shelter. They just have to tell the driver they are going to a shelter and their fare is comped free.🚌
They, or you, can also call 311 or the Homeless Hotline at 210.207.1799 to get a free ride to shelter space.
Most importantly, the unhoused want the same thing we want, shelter, food, peace and love.🌈
The opposite of addiction is connection. Keep making those connections with your unhoused neighbors because that is how we build up OUR community.
Visit our website for opportunities to donate through Cashapp, Venmo, Zelle, Paypal or the Amazon wish list.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16CGQu3QCV/
www.BreadandBlankets.org
Cash app $breadandblankets
https://paypal.me/mayahuel210
zelle is [email protected] or cell 210.3 2 2/2998
Venmo is @ [email protected]
Or cell phone number 210.3 2 2/2998
Winter Amazon list:
https://amzn.to/3WaXQjU
Lunch Bag Needs from Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4gLp4WF
Welcome to Bread and Blankets Mutual Aid located in San Antonio; el corazón de Tejas. Our goal is to serve primarily the needs of those who have been historically neglected, the houseless in underserved areas, through mutual aid and support by those who are willing to give supplies and time. We tha...
