Creating a nurturing physical environment is an important part of what we do. We’re helping women, children and families adopt a new way of living. Being in a space that is clean and inviting is part of that new way of living. So, House of Ruth has been sprucing up to keep our buildings warm and welcoming.

Late in 2009, we consolidated two small programs for families and re-purposed a five-unit apartment building to become home for 14 women who are struggling with homelessness, abuse and mental illness.

In 2010, we sold the other vacated building and reinvested the proceeds in improving how our other locations function.

For example, the women at two of our service-enriched housing programs are doing more cooking now that their outdated kitchens have been replaced. Fifty women living at another residential program are able to have more privacy and more frequent and useful interactions with staff after we extensively remodeled the interior.

The 63 families living in our service-enriched housing programs are welcomed home now to freshly painted hallways and common areas in their buildings. So mothers and children can escape the heat, old, ineffective window units were replaced with central air conditioning at one building. At others, new landscaping makes the outside as welcoming as the interior.

The 76 children at our child and family development center are enjoying new playground equipment and a bike path outside as well as new paint and flooring in many areas inside.

 

House of Ruth is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
Our mailing address is 5 Thomas Circle, NW, Washington, DC 20005.
Telephone: 202-667-7001 FAX: 202-667-7047 Email: houseofruth@houseofruth.org
Donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
Our Federal Tax ID Number is 52-1054102.