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Donate
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You can
either donate
online or you can download a form and mail in your contribution.
Please consider joining the HIPS "Circle of Giving" by committing to
regular monthly contributions from your credit card. Click the "Online"
button to make a one-time or recurring monthly donation.
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$50—supports one
weekend of nutritional food for youth on the street
$100 – supports 120 hours of hotline assistance to those in crisis.
$1,200 – supports one night of outreach performed in your
honor.
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Volunteer
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HIPS relies on over
100 volunteers to ensure that our programs can help sex workers lead
healthier lives. Last year, sex workers donated over 100 hours of
volunteer work to HIPS. Trained volunteers and interns conduct
outreach, develop materials and kits, and provide critical
administrative support. HIPS holds volunteer trainings three
times a year, generally January, May and October. If you
are interested in volunteering, please check out our volunteer opportunties page or search for HIPS on
VolunteerMatch.org
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Other
contributions to HIPS include
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Unused beauty
supplies for the women on the track. Because few women actually keep
the money they make in a night, few can afford to purchase new makeup
or hair care products.
Gift certificates to
CVS or local supermarkets would allow us to provide juice and food for
those who work the streets for basic survival purposes.
Clothing! Dig
through your closets for clothing that you don't need anymore. Often
times, when a woman leaves her pimp, she's lucky if she can leave with
the clothes on her back. Also, in the cold winter months, many people
are forced to work in the freezing cold for hours at a time.
HIPS can always use
office supplies. Paper, pens, folders, and printer ink are just a few
of the items that we always seem to need around the office. HIPS
gathers a great deal of information through its outreach and activism.
Cook meals for the DIVAs program
Technical assistance
in the HIPS office
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HIPS
mission is to assist female, male, and transgendered individuals
engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives. Using
a harm reduction model, HIPS’ programs strive to address the impact
that HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, discrimination,
poverty, violence and drug use have on the lives of individuals
engaging in sex work. |
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