The Romero House mobile unit provides sandwiches, hot drinks, gloves and sleeping bags in its nightly rounds in both the north and south end of Saint John, N.B. (submitted)
Anyone out in the cold tonight needing a place to warm up can visit the Romero House mobile unit making stops in the north end and the south end.
The bus operates weekday evenings offering sandwiches and hot drinks and other snacks when they are available.
“It’s also an opportunity for people to get sleeping bags, if they need something a little warmer in the room they are staying in or where they are staying. If someone is stranded on the street, they try to find them a place to stay for the night,” McNulty.
Once the meals are distributed for the day at the Romero House soup kitchen, McNulty says they make 120 sandwiches for the mobile unit and they can use donations of the supplies to make them or volunteers to make them.
“Coffee cards are another really good one. People who are staying in the shelters or are wandering have a hard time staying anywhere because they are considered to be loitering. If they have a coffee card and can buy a coffee or a donut they are allowed to sit,” McNulty said.
McNulty says the soup kitchen doesn’t really see more people when it’s really cold outside but, the people coming in will stay longer.
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