Starting Saturday Morning, veteran’s group Team RWB along with members of IUP’s ROTC and PTX military service fraternity will show the Indiana community what life is like for homeless veterans.
Starting at 8:00 AM on Saturday, a “Homeless Veterans Sleep-Out” will be held at Wal-Mart on Oakland Avenue. CareerLink’s Kevin Lazor is one of the veterans taking part in the event, and he says that the participants will essentially live the life of a homeless veteran for 24 hours. The participants will live off the donations of the community, including whatever food and drink is donated. They will also accept financial donations and donations of hygene items.
Lazor added that there will be someone ready to take donations or talk with people about the plight of homeless veterans for the entire 24 hours, even as others are trying to sleep in makeshift sleeping conditions, like cardboard boxes.
The event runs until 8:00 AM on Sunday. Over the last few years, the group has raised around $3000 a year, and the money will go to the Homeless Veterans Parsonage, which is the former parsonage of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana.
