Celebrating Mother's Day With LA's Homeless & Poorest Moms At The Fred Jordan Mission On Skid Row

For the 71st year, Fred Jordan Mission will be honoring hundreds of impoverished moms with a delicious luncheon banquet and showering them with free personalized gift bags for them and their children.  While moms are enjoying a special day of pampering, their children will be treated to a day of fun and games -- as well as small gifts. Each mom will leave the Mission with fresh flowers, bulging gift bags and food bags.

Dozens of volunteers will honor their own Moms by spending the day showering kindness and attention on these struggling Moms. Come see and hear the challenges of what it means to be a hungry and homeless mother living on Skid Row with her children.

Hear from Willie Jordan, the only female President of an inner city Skid Row Mission in the nation, and the mother of seven children herself.  Willie and her late husband Fred Jordan always spent Mother's Day on Skid Row with their seven children, where they all helped some of our neediest neighbors, before enjoying their own family celebrations.

See first-hand how the face of homelessness has changed, with women and children making up more than 40% of the homeless population nationwide. See and hear what it's like to be a mother or child on Skid Row and in the inner city.  Show your viewers, listeners and readers how they can help make a difference in the lives of impoverished families.

WHEN:

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015 - - 10:00am until 2:00pm

We will be cooking all day today FRIDAY, MAY 8 and making special gift baskets for the mothers to prepare for this celebration.  If you would like to see what goes on behind the scenes, feel free to call us to schedule a visit.

WHERE:

Fred Jordan Mission, 445 Towne Avenue, Los Angeles (corner of 5^th & Towne)