We served 245 people (66 children) and managed to get 145 off the streets! Of those, 74 went to shelters, and the rest to permanent destinations. Over the past 12 months, the numbers rise to 2,021 people served and 1,835 exits to positive housing destinations. Since we started working with the Homeless Trust in May 2021, we’ve served 4,171 people and helped 3,846 leave the streets. We currently have around 220 people living in our homes (22 houses) or in the hotel we use for migrants and families in transition. In the Veterans program, we served 163 veterans this month and were able to find housing for 9 of them. This month, we had two births in the maternity home! It’s almost full (we already have 9 moms!), so we’re looking to rent another house so we don’t have to turn anyone away. If anyone has a house for rent, please let us know. It could be in Miami or Broward, where we have volunteers from Mater eager to open one there! We also had 21 baptisms! A record! Special thanks to Ricardo, Laura, and Hortensia for organizing everything so well and mobilizing so many people. A big shout-out to Deacon Tony Perez, who never tires of baptizing, and to the Corpus Christi community, which always welcomes us with open doors! Lastly, we celebrated Thanksgiving with a party for 250 people. A huge thank-you to the Youth for the Homeless team... 👏👏👏👏 to Elena Castrillón!!! And Michelle Cuccia, who mobilized many people and resources to ensure nothing was missing, creating a multiplication of the loaves that is reaching biblical proportions! A thousand thanks!!! Also to Carlos Khubler, who, as always, secured the venue!!! It’s a wonderful tradition! Now Christmas is coming, and we have two teams working full steam to make sure no child is left without a gift or a party. This Friday, there’s a big party at the Children’s Museum organized by the Sereniti Foundation (thank you, Álvaro Rodas and Caro Montoya!) for the children of Hermanos and thousands in Colombia... I was surprised to learn that 70 kids from Hermanos will be attending!!! These are children from families we’ve helped! Incredible!! Next Saturday, there’s another big event organized by Toy Drive’n Events, also for all the children of the foundation! If you’d like to help, we are collecting cleaning supplies for the homes. Please contact Malena. We also need sponsors for various causes (paying daycare for newborns, sponsoring a mom or adult in the homes, helping with transportation, etc.). We need jobs for many of the Hermanos... anyone who can offer something is more than welcome—anything from dishwashing to boxing sparring. Everything helps. At the hotel, we currently have 20 rooms with 56 people! Let’s see who dares to bring breakfast or meals! Every little bit counts. Thank you so much! We can do this! 💪❤️💪❤️💪❤️

This month we served 318 people experiencing homelessness (including 69 children). Of those, we were able to provide "positive housing destinations" for 202. Among them, 118 went to shelters, 41 were able to rent a home (several in our houses and all with our help), 39 moved in with friends/family, and a total of 28 went to other cities where someone was waiting for them. Only 3 accepted to go to rehab. In the last 12 months, the total number served rises to 2,000 homeless individuals, with 1,805 securing a place to live! It's incredible how the numbers grow. Of the total we helped this year, 404 were children. Finally, since May 2021, when we started with the homeless trust, we have assisted 4,043 people, helping 3,708 find a place to live. We currently have 218 people under our housing programs: 162 in 22 houses and 56 in hotels. In the Veterans program, we are serving an additional 239 people with homeless prevention and rapid rehousing. It's a lot of people! The month was quite busy; we opened two houses thanks to a grant from the DDA (kudos to genius Manolo Reyes!). San Ernesto is already full, and Santa Cabrini (you have to see the movie!) is starting in November. With the hurricane agenda, we placed 63 people in shelters. We fully engaged in the campaign for life, organizing a rally that turned out amazing. Genius Eduardo Verastegui and everyone who participated touched our hearts, and now we can't stay silent. We are going all out for life. We had three births at the Maternity House, and with the baby born yesterday, we now have 5 newborns! A true blessing, and as soon as we fill the house, we will open another one. Our message is that if you are pregnant, we will help you. We fight for both lives. Abortion must be unthinkable, and we will achieve this. We are here to defend the dignity of people from conception until death. Without any exceptions. No one is worth less. Everyone counts. It is Jesus himself who awaits us among those who have the least. We will find him! Let's go, we can do it! ❤️💪❤️💪

This month, we served 235 people, of whom 143 went to positive housing destinations (75 to shelters, 1 to rehab, 4 to temporary housing, and 63 to permanent housing). The rest, we are still working with! Over the last 12 months, the total served has reached 1,947, with 1,757 success stories (800 to shelters, 18 to rehabs, 58 in temporary housing, and 881 to permanent housing). Our historical record adds up to 3,882 served and 3,556 success stories since May 1, 2021, when we started working with the Homeless Trust. The most beautiful part of the month was the baptisms of 15 brothers and sisters at Corpus Christi, which gives meaning to what we do every day. Seeing the face of Christ in the most needy! We continue renting houses, and today we received San Ernesto, which will soon have 9 tenants! Also, the DDA gave us a grant to strengthen the work we do downtown. This month, DeSantis' new law banning street camps begins, and everyone is worried about what will happen with the homeless. For us, it's a great opportunity to solve the problem once and for all. There are resources and a willingness for change. What’s missing is bringing the public and private sectors together to create the units needed to house people. There are fewer than 1,000 homeless people left in all of Miami-Dade and 600 in the city. If we organize, we can achieve this! We are looking for houses, multifamily units, and even a church to rent if anyone has something available. At the family hotel, we have 58 people, and it would be great to form teams to visit and make the stay more pleasant, especially for the children. Let's do this! ❤️ 💪 ❤️