Beanies4hope

How it started

Beanies4Hope - is initiated by Anisha and Riya in 2018. Every year from Nov to March we make breakfast/dinner and serve at the warming center(Where unhoused members get a warm meal and bed to rest for the night ) . We saw how hard it is for them to get through a cold night in winter. This same feeling motivated us to do something about it and the idea of providing beanies and scarves came into action .

First year we started making beanies all by ourselves and as it is time consuming we could only make few through the year but in pandemic, due to online school we had all the time in summer and we make 100 beanies in 2020 April to Nov , at the same time we were able to reach to the community personals specially seniors who like to kill their time were so eager to join and helped us out .

We have a community group who help make beanies and support the cause .

After that, many kids started participating in the project . So far we have been distributing the beanies to

Fremont shelter
Fremont Warming center
Abode Services
Sanjose Homeless shelter
Distributed at encampment