Amikas

A Home for the Holidays

For three veteran women who were facing the prospect of having no place to live this month, the Amikas House is a Christmas present they will never forget. Thanks to the generosity of local donors and volunteers, Amikas, a grassroots non-profit working to house homeless persons, opened their first transitional home for veteran women and their children on Thanksgiving Day.

The Amikas House will be home for up to six veteran women and their children while they are preparing to transition to either the Amikas AD-UP house sharing program or other affordable housing.
Most of the furnishings and supplies in the house are being donated, but Amikas president, Jeeni Criscenzo, points out that the organization is working on a shoestring budget and financial donations for rent and overhead are particularly needed. In the spirit of the Season, we hope you will consider making a contribution to Amikas. Your donation is tax deductible. Click Here to Donate

Your tax-deductible contribution to Amikas will help us overcome homelessness in San Diego.

Amikas launches new initiative to feed the hungry

While working with organizations that are providing food for people in San Diego, we saw a need for coordination between these groups and caring individuals. We realized their efforts could be a more effective if people knew who was doing what, when and where. And it would be helpful for people looking for food or a meal to be able to find out where it is available in their area on any day. That led to creating KitchenCommons.org. If your group is helping to feed the hungry in the San Diego area, please send your information to jeeni@amikas.org and we will add it to our database.

The Invisible Ones:
Homeless Combat Veterans
Please watch this powerful documentary about our homeless veterans by San Diego producers Patty Mooney and Mark Schulze of Crystal Pyramid Productions.

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it to future generations.”

--George Bernard Shaw