LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thousands of hygiene kits were assembled Tuesday at UPS WorldPort to help Louisville’s homeless residents.
Inside a giant UPS Worldport hanger, Kayla Mudd is writing a small note.
“Be the joy you wish to see in the world,” Mudd recites.
They are handwritten words of encouragement for those who need it most, Louisville’s homeless residents.
“I’m also putting, ‘Spread kindness’ because that’s important to me,'” Mudd adds.
The notes will accompany every hygiene kit assembled at UPS Worldport. Mudd works here and is volunteering her morning to help.
“Through all the tough years we’ve had recently we’ve all managed to hold a stable job and not everybody in our community has been that lucky,” Mudd explains.
She, along with 60 other volunteers, are building several thousand hygiene kits and in short order. The kits include bar soap, shampoo, toothpaste and hand sanitizer.
Inside a Worldport hanger (Spectrum News 1/Jonathon Gregg)
Louisville’s Coalition for the Homeless will handle the kits after today.
“These kits, 3,600 kits will be distributed among our network of partners and a lot of those are going to be names you’ve heard of: St. Vincent DePaul, Salvation Army, Wayside Christian Mission, Home of the Innocence,” Melissa Raley explains.
Raley says with a challenge as great as Louisville’s homelessness crisis, it takes help from the community’s flagship corporations like UPS to meet that challenge.
“To remind them that it’s going to get better, keep going, someone cares about you and we’ve got a community rooting for you.”
Mudd could not agree more.
“Right now I’m writing, ‘You can do it’ and ‘Be the best you.’”
And the city is fortunate to have volunteers as thoughtful as Mudd.
“I think it’s a big deal to take what we’ve been given and give back to other people.”