Carbondale Warming Center allows additional guests
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CARBONDALE (WSIL) The Carbondale Warming Center is opening an overflow section. Their executive director tells News 3 the center has helped at least 30 people so far and have a few spots left.
They say anyone who needs the space will have get a warm bed and meals. The center tells us they still need volunteers and donations like sleeping bags, coats and paper products. Since this weather has hit, it s dangerous, it s scary, it s cold, it s hypothermic, it s frostbite, it s everything that the guests that we serve don t need to have happen, said Carmalita Cahill.
The City of Marion opened a Warming Center at the Marion Training Center at 211 East Boulevard Street. The Warming Center will be open daily from 6 p.m. to
The Carbondale Warming Center received a financial boost Tuesday.
Church Women United Illinois donated ten thousand dollars to the Carbondale Warming Center.
At the beginning of the pandemic the center started staying open 24 hours and providing three meals a day to individuals staying there.
The center also helps individuals get help with medical needs and connect them to social services.
Executive Director Carmalita Cahill says this donation will help a lot of people.
“Our funding comes from the people in this community and we can’t be more grateful for that because that’s keeping small children off the street, individuals who may or may not have the ability right now to determine if they’re safe when its cold outside, their mental health doesn’t allow them to do that and we’re not one of the cities with people in our streets freezing to death and that’s something as a community we can take pride in.”