Marcello Rollando: What One Person Can Do re Homelessness with Pat LaMarche

Patricia H. LaMarche is an educator, journalist, and broadcaster who has successfully managed business and charitable organizations and is well known for her innovative approach to public service.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, educated at Boston College and the University of Amsterdam, Pat now lives in central Pennsylvania. Pat spent decades as a broadcaster turned homeless advocate. After years of reporting on poverty around the globe and here at home, Pat went to work with the nation’s most forgotten and least understood. Pat worked towards broad-spectrum social change, culminating in a 2004 run for Vice President of the United States. Pat is now self employed, writing books, donating her time to The Charles Bruce Foundation (which she and her husband started) to support Writers, Artists and Musicians (WAM!), and playing with her grandchildren.

Attached are photographys of blakets part of Pat's intiative, from Carlisle PA last year. They will have close to 1000 blankets on the West Lawn of the US Capitol on Wednesday Dec. 21st, barring rain. The event moves to the Church of the Reformation right behind the Supreme Court for an indoor venue if the weather is nasty. Address for the church is 212 East Capitol St NE, Washington, DC 20003.

People from all across the nation have made blankets for Homeless Remembrance Night—the longest night of the year—when we remember not only those who live on the street, but those who pass. Family blankets, individual blankets, and baby blankets will be available. The following days the blankets will be distributed to people in need of bare necessities like warmth.

For more, please see:

https://memorialblanket.org/