Depaul USA Daybreak encouraging homeless to travel to available shelters, preparing for freezing temperatures

Daybreak offers services such as housing, food, laundry facilities, showers, and a free health clinic. The center serves people Monday through Friday. 

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)-  Depaul USA Daybreak is encouraging homeless men and women to go to available shelters as they prepare for the upcoming arctic freeze.

An average of 100 homeless men and women visit Depaul Daybreak each week to receive services that will help them overcome the immediate crisis of homelessness.

Daybreak offers services such as housing, food, laundry facilities, showers, and a free health clinic. The center serves people Monday through Friday. 

Director of Daybreak, Sister Deborah Mallott, says the number of homeless people who need shelter are rising as the temperature is dropping.

“Days are so very cold, when we get down to the twenties, we get more and more people coming, they come from the shelter a little later but they do come,” says Sister Mallott.  

Sister Mallott also stated that Daybreak will be hosting a sleepout for locals to experience the night of a homeless person.

“It’s somebody who actually comes and sleeps in the tints and experience what the homeless experience, you can be someone who supports a sleeper and sponsors them, or you can be a corporate sponsor of the sleepout,” says Sister Mallott. “We have sponsors like Subaru and other organizations that sponsor us, and that really helps us, to continue what were doing throughout the years, so we encourage people to help in whatever way they can give, please do.”

The 12th Annual Macon Daybreak Sleepout fundraiser will be February 27.