The Empowerment Plan is a humanitarian non-profit organization dedicated to serving the homeless in Detroit. Over 20,000 people in the city are homeless, spending each day wandering around with no place to get warm. Shelters are often too overwhelmed and under-supported to assist every individual in need. Thus, homeless people have to fend for themselves on the streets, a difficulty that is exacerbated during winter.
The Empowerment Plan aims to help build a better life for individuals who have become trapped in the homelessness cycle. The organization hires single parents from local shelters as full-time seamstresses. They are trained to manufacture a coat that transforms into a sleeping bag at night and a bag when not in use. The coats are then given out to homeless people living on the streets.
The Empowerment Plan's focus is to create jobs for those who want them and to provide coats at no cost for those who need them.
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