Covenant House

Millions of homeless kids are living on the streets. You have the power to make a difference!

Join the movement to bring attention to this crisis:

Host a candlelight vigil on November 5, 2009.

Attend one of the November 5, 2009 vigils organized by Covenant House and our friends.

You're invited to help Covenant House provide lifesaving help to homeless kids.

And all it takes is 10 minutes.

How? Simply create an easy-to-build web page about the Books that Have Changed Your Life.

Tolstoy? Martha Stewart? The Dalai Lama?

No matter what books you choose, you'll be generating royalties for Covenant House, every month, forever. And your page will help Covenant House spread the word about our life-changing work to thousands of new friends.

Our outreach team came across Mike wrapped in a tattered old blanket sitting on the street corner after midnight.

He told us he had been released from the hospital a few days before and he still held the plastic bag they gave him for all his earthly possessions.

Mike was starving. He hadn't eaten since his discharge and his eyes lit up when we offered him sandwiches and juice. He ate two sandwiches and placed a third carefully in his bag. He was afraid to come in the van with us to come to the shelter but we made a connection.

Now that we know he's there, our van staff will look for him when they go out at night and hopefully he will take the big step to trusting us and come back to the safety of our crisis center.

Mike is out there and desperately in need of so much help. We have to keep doing all that we can to help him to trust us. Then maybe he can take the steps towards believing that his life is worth something more than dying anonymously on the streets.

There are all too many kids like Mike on the streets of our cities. Together with people like you, Covenant House is able to seek them out and offer them hope for a better future.

Covenant House provides shelter and service to homeless and runaway kids. We were incorporated in New York City in 1972 and have expanded to over a dozen cities in the U.S., Toronto, Vancouver, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.

We've provided direct services to over one million kids in those years. As long as they need us, we'll be there, but we look for a future where Covenant House is not needed and our young people are valued by their families and communities.

In addition to food, shelter, clothing and crisis care, Covenant House provides a variety of services to homeless kids including health care, education, vocational preparation, drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal services, recreation, mother/child programs, transitional living programs, street outreach and aftercare.

Some 70,000 kids are touched by Covenant House programs each year.

Thank you for making a difference in the lives of these great kids.