Safe Harbour Screening & Donation Drive
The tiny team behind The Invisible Class believes that documentary film is always an opportunity to educate, but it addition to that, it can also to go one step further. When we partner up with homeless service providers, community organizations, and schools it’s also an opportunity for action. This could mean food, clothing and hygiene kit donations. It can mean volunteer signup drives. Even financial donations. All supporting a local homeless organization, or the screening partner themselves. Case in point, for this screening, we partnered up with the awesome org: Safe Harbour. Together we were able to raise $900 for them, and we got 300+ pounds of clothes, hygiene kit supplies and food. Plus 4 new volunteers!
Safe Harbour is a not-for-profit organization that provides a continuum of housing services for the homeless of Cumberland County. Safe Harbour has been providing secure housing for homeless and nearly homeless children and adults for more than three decades, having served thousands of people since opening its doors in a historic former hotel in downtown Carlisle in 1986.
Safe Habour like many homeless service providers need all they help they can get. They do great work but they also need programming, employee trainings, and events to partner and organize around. At this screening in addition to Safe Harbour there many many other organizations present including Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland Country, Community Cares, The Salvation Army, Cumberland County Community Services, Partnership for Better Health, and more.
“The feeling of uncomfortability that this documentary sets in the heart of its viewers comes from a place of not trying to just be an entertaining, Marvel style mindless production. We go through families being evicted in a snowstorm to encampment cleanup to family shelters. This film takes us right up to the glass and forces us to look at a very uncomfortable truth in our society: we have a homeless problem that has been caused by a system of economic inequality.”
“While I was watching Hayes’s brilliant filmography, I couldn’t help but wonder: why don’t we talk about the homeless class more? It’s a conversation that more people need to have and listen to…”
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