Neighborhood Alliance Annual Report Annual Report 2013 | Page 15

Appetite for Awareness Hunger is NO Game In recognition of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 2013 Neighborhood Alliance in partnership with Panera Bread presented a special soup lunch and short film at Hoke Theatre of Stocker Arts Center (Lorain County Community College). Project Night Night Helping Homeless Children have sweet dreams Thank you to Nordson Corp. for delivering 50 Project Night Night bags for the children at the Haven Center. These bags contained books, stuffed animals and other comforting items for children at the shelter. This special soup lunch featured a viewing of the short film “Living Room” by Nikki Heyman, an Oberlin college student who created this film as her senior project. “Living Room” is an award winning intimate portrait of three homeless families in Lorain County struggling to provide for their children. A short documentary that exposes the harsh and often unseen lives of parents and children living on the edge, victims of the American recession, this film provides an important lens into unraveling the misconceptions of being homeless in America. Soup and film viewing were FREE and open to the public; “good will” donations were accepted at the door to support Neighborhood Alliance Haven Center Homeless Shelter and Emergency Services Follow Us: MyAllianceNEO 15126 In 2013, Neighborhood Alliance provided shelter nights to 471 individuals (87 were children)