Here are some volunteering opportunities with mutual aid groups. Since distros can shift and change, please RSVP with each individual group before you show up. I'm trying a new calendar format this month, so please let me know if you like this version, or the list better! Yes,
Philly's Food and Nutrition Security Task Force has recommendations, but you can take matters into your own hands
The P.A. Groundhogs have released a study to share how effective drug test strips can be, and why more of us should have them around.
There’s no smoking gun in these files that points to any one person or group doing anything blatantly vile or wrong. Instead, we can see dysfunction over how to provide long-term care for our most vulnerable.
Department of Health Resource Hubs across Philly, which provided public health supplies, testing and emergency-need products, are closing. Some of the services offered will move to other locations.
A heat emergency is called when This kind of declaration is made when temperatures and humidity reach levels that can put vulnerable people, like those with chronic illness or the elderly, at high risk for medical emergencies. Meaning, people who are vulnerable and alone need our help.
(and volunteer ops for the week) Most Fridays, The Platia joins mutual aid groups, Food Not Bombs and Punks With Lunch, for a picnic in South Philly where we distribute free food and talk about harm reduction on a local level. These Mifflin Square Park picnics are a blast. (We&
Leaky roofs and bedbugs push people to sleep on the street instead of staying in a Philadelphia shelter — and that's only if a bed is even available. It could soon get harder to find any space at all.
Hi everyone. May has been a really big month and I am so happy to have you here. Please read up on why The Platia believes that mutual aid and information will save the world and message me if you have thoughts and want to chat about it! I was
While coming in for one of its infamous vegan pop tarts, you can throw in a few extra dollars and make sure that someone's bad day instantly gets better with a free meal.
Join our Free food picnic every Friday at Mifflin Park - plus other volunteer ops.
And how to look for the helpers.