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The Village in Oakland

The Village in Oakland

Grassroots & volunteer-run by unhoused, housing insecure and formally unhoused folks

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Direct Services

Feed The People

Feed the People started in January 2016 when Needa Bee and her then 14 year-old daughter Joyous Efiya De Asis Miralle started sharing weekly hot meals to the two curbside communities in the Funktown neighborhood she had spent most of her life in, and the communities in the North Oakland neighborhood she had recently relocated to.

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SOS – Sanitation Ona Streets

Adequate sanitation is hard to come by for unhoused folks. We believe access to sanitation is a human right. Because the local governments fall short of providing sanitation services to our curbside residents, we created SOS.

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Housing & Dignity Building Team

Our Housing and Build Team is our most known program and the program that kicked off our organization. This team is a non-violent direct action team that builds emergency tiny homes, community kitchens, communal bathhouses, bicycle powered washing machines, and tiny homes on wheels at curbside communities thru out Oakland.

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Soul Food Shack

Soul Food Shack is our mobile/pop-up apothecary that provides ancestral herbal medicines and alternative treatments that help unhoused residents manage anxiety, depression, stress, addiction and dependency.

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First Responders Network

Whether it be the arson fires started by predators that plague encampments across Oakland, or domestic violence, or a mental health crisis, support to document or push back against an eviction of a curbside community — Our First Responders are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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The GAS IT! Grant

The GAS IT! Grant brokers donations of vehicles between donors and unhoused volunteers of the Village in Oakland. It’s one of our systems of sweat equity we use with the Village in Oakland to make sure that our unhoused volunteers are taken care off. Personal, recreation and commercial vehicles are always in need by our dedicated to volunteers.

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No Vacancy Ca/Hotels Not Graves/Streetcation 

Hotel Voucher Program to give folks a few days of respite from the streets.

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Our Work During The COVID19 Pandemic

During the pandemic, the work of Feed The People tripled in scope. We expanded distribution services to unhoused communities in Berkeley and San Francisco. And in Oakland we expanded services to housed senior citizens and families with children who are facing food scarcity during the pandemic.

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