Service/Outreach
Changing Lives Through Love and Service to our Community
Woman on Purpose’s service and outreach arm is known as Project R.E.A.C.H. (Restoring & Empowering a Community’s Hope). Passionately devoted to service and outreach, Project R.E.A.C.H. is dedicated to supporting, encouraging, and bringing hope to our community members. This is achieved by engaging in community-based outreach to the homeless and underserved, homeless street outreach, and international outreach. In 2024, with the help of some very dedicated gynecologists and a neonatologist, we are developing our teenage pregnancy prevention and support program. By years end 2026, we aim to open the Bridge of Hope Life Center and soon thereafter launch our residential transitional housing and intervention programming for homeless women and aged out foster youth.
COMMUNITY-BASED OUTREACH
Through our community-based outreach activities, Woman on Purposes encourages and empowers our youth, women, families, homeless and underserved by providing for basic needs, offering needed services and information, health screenings, support, and referrals. Forging trusted and sustained relationships and walking alongside our community members is just as important to our mission as the services we provide. Woman on Purpose partners with other organizations, community leaders, and resource agencies as well to address the needs of our community members and to extend a hand of love and hope to our community. We assist individual clients on an as needed basis with specific requests within our scope and also facilitate referrals to other existing resources and organizations. We are vigorously seeking more innovative and impactful ways to serve. It is our desire, not only to “give a man a fish but also to teach him how to fish and create an environment and structure for sustainable life change. We engage in community based outreach several times a year and often paired with our street outreach, with activities for Easter, Back to School, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. We have launched some additional youth programming as well, with our first annual Youth Explosion event planned for April 6, 2024.
HOMELESS STREET OUTREACH
Homelessness unfortunately is not uncommon in the Atlanta metropolitan area, with estimates of over 2600 people sleeping on the streets and shelters on any given night. This number is significantly increased when people living in improvised housing, cars, motels, staying with others, and the unseen are considered. There are many paths to homelessness: poverty, a lost job, conflict with family, an unexpected expense, legal problem, family violence, medical conditions, mental health conditions, addiction etc. Among the homeless are our veterans and our children. Up to a third of the homeless are families. There are over 1000 homeless children attending Atlanta public schools and greater than 36,000 homeless students statewide. The problem may be great, but God is greater and together we can have victory over homelessness. Woman on Purpose reaches out to share love and fellowship as we address the basic needs of this population. We work to restore hope to the hopeless as we develop more permanent solutions to homelessness and its root causes.We meet our clients at the point of their needs, where they are, on the streets, in parks, and on the underpasses of downtown Atlanta. It is a beautiful time of fellowship, relationship-building, and service. We are blessed to share food (hot meals, drinks, fruits, non-perishable items), toiletries (hygiene packs, tissue, hand sanitizer, sanitary napkins, and masks), survival essentials (blankets, tents, ponchos, and sleeping bags), clothing (coats, jackets, sweaters, pants, hats, gloves, scarves, underwear, socks, shoes etc.) and prayer, bibles, and other encouragement materials. We accept donations of new and gently used items year-round. Please consider a donation today.
INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
Reaching across the borders, Project R. E. A. C. H. international outreach supports missionaries in fighting infanticide in Northern Nigeria, rescuing babies born as twins, with albinism, and those mothers die during childbirth, etc. often from the clutches of death from abandonment or by traditionalists who believe these children are evil, a taboo, and not precious gifts from God. Volunteers in Northern Nigeria run an orphanage caring for these children’s
Reaching across the borders, Project R. E. A. C. H. international outreach supports missionaries in fighting infanticide in Northern Nigeria, rescuing babies born as twins, with albinism, and those whose mothers die during childbirth, etc. often from the clutches of death from abandonment or by traditionalists who believe these children are evil, a taboo, and not precious gifts from God. Missionaries, paid staff and volunteers in Northern Nigeria run a rescue home caring for these children’s physical, medical, spiritual and other needs, giving hope and making an investment in their future.
BRIDGE OF HOPE LIFE CENTER
We strive to provide a multifaceted program for women and families including a residential component to allow for an intensive intervention and transitional services. To that end, we are planning to build the Bridge of Hope Life Center (BOHLC) which will be a hub for all our current programs. The BOHLC will include both office and residential space, whereby all our current local events, seminars, training, food, basic needs, and clothing distribution, restorative and social services programs can be held. Please consider becoming a part of this vision today.
Woman on Purpose (“WOP”) is changing lives through love and service.
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