Local Cannabis Companies and Non-Profits Join Humanity Heroes in Distributing Full Backpacks to the Unhoused in Eureka
Green Ox working with Humanity Heroes in Eureka during 2021 distributing blankets to those in need. [Photo provided]
Los Angeles-based non-profit Humanity Heroes is returning to Eureka for its third annual day of giving. On February 25, the non-profit will distribute 300 backpacks filled with the unhoused community’s most-requested daily essentials.
The ‘Humanity Pack Campaign’ began in Los Angeles when cannabis entrepreneur Michael ‘BigMike’ Straumietis felt moved to serve the city’s homeless population. In a simple yet transformative
act of compassion, he asked the Skid Row community what they needed most. Their answer sparked the birth of Humanity Heroes, a non-profit that has to date donated more than $700k worth of safety and hygiene items to 60,000 individuals nationwide.
“Humboldt County sits at the heart of our cannabis industry, and it’s important to me that Humanity Heroes continues to uplift the members of its community,” says BigMike. “It’s a privilege to come together with some of the most celebrated companies and nonprofits in the area to support those in need here in Eureka.”
On February 25, Green Ox Distribution, Humboldt Homegrown, Uplift Eureka and St. Vincent de Paul will join Humanity Heroes in providing the community with backpacks, blankets, and a warm meal. Humanity Heroes is currently recruiting volunteers to join in the day of giving from 10am-2pm at St. Vincent De Paul Dinner Hall 35 – 3rd Street Eureka.
Visitwww.joinhumanityheroes.org to volunteer for the February 25 Backpack Campaign or to make a donation.
Follow Humanity Heroes on social media @joinhumanityheroes
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Humanity Heroes Foundation is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Organization. Contributions to the Humanity Heroes Foundation are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by the law.
Humanity Heroes Foundation tax identification number is #85-0503023.
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Very cool! Thanks for helping our community. I clicked the link to sign up to help, but it didn’t work. May need a new link….
Fixed! Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Don’t feed the pigeons
11600$ worth of hygiene products per person?
$700,000 split between 60,000 people is $11.67 not $11600
This is the reason people can’t get rich growing cannabis; the inability to do math ☺
Pretty crafty. When I lived in Simi Valley I worked for several years in Beverly Hills. After eating holidays my daughter’s used to take some leftovers and make turkey, ham and/or Swedish meatballs sandwiches which I would distribute in Beverly Hills on the way to work.
Don’t let them fool you… non profits are funded by FEMA (ie YOUR tax dollars) . This will no doubt create more refuse when the homeless are done using the backpacks and contents inside they will undoubtedly toss them in a ravine or into a waterway. More trash = more tax payer money to clean it up.
So uninformed. Such a negative and dark heart you must have. Sad for you. Consider the many gifts in your life and try to rise above your lifestyle and ego to see the humanity in all. Please.
Lou M. is just being realistic. Seen the wetlands recently? Giving stuff to the homeless means that much more trash will be discarded into the environment.
I’m glad to see you’re on board with having the local municipalities provide dumpsters to help lessen the amount of trash on the ground.
Thanks for the article. So many people talk about good these days. Some people actually do good. I admire them.
I used to donate to the addicts in so cal. I would give them sleeping bags etc. The next day they would not have anything left. I had to accept that most of these types of people are beyond the help this article describes. I know from personal experience that it does make you feel good doing it though.
This is like seeing someone with a broken leg and offering them a bag of Skittles.
We ought to be getting people away from being homeless, not making it easier to stay that way.
It is not true compassion, just a way to “feel good” while not doing the real work.
the tent cities and Sheer numbers of homeless in a California is staggering. We now have a type of caste system in our state, where we have untouchables who are living in filth and squalor and refuse. Without addressing the central issues there is no remedy.
drugs, inequality, mental health.
addressing the 1st one. Anytime you look on this website you see busts for dealing meth fent, and heroin. These drugs feed this population. This is what causes this condition.
have penalties for dealing these drugs that are punative. These dealers are ( barely) profiting off the poorest addicted population. Target them all the way. I’m not a fan of the police state but at this point its a sad joke. Get caught with pounds of hard drugs and get released.
Perhaps the biggest irony is a self nicknamed “ kingpin” who looks like he came from the school of frosty sours.
whose online persona is a midsy manager who poses with women in bikinis who could be his daughters age.
wait.. this the advanced nutrients guy?
alright
simulation
This is a pretty funny you got me
Pay the small farmers. Give them help they deserve and then they can help locals in need too.
Big Mike, the guy who in 2016, “spent nine or ten months out of every year in Bulgaria, but he has scaled that back of late despite his continuing popularity in the country. “I’m not a politician,” he said. “I don’t want to be Bulgaria’s president, prime minister, or anything. I just want to help put the right people in and let them do their thing.”
Interesting…..