Project Warm Us is an organization that collects coats and warm clothes all year for the homeless people in Dallas to help keep them warm during the winter season.

“Every year our goal is to collect as many coats as we can,” Project Warm Us co-founder in Woodson said. “We hope to get people involved in the project and to give back to their community.”

Every year the project has a certain goal it tries to reach based on the number of how many homeless people are in the Dallas area.

“The number of how much we collect always has a meaning,” Project Warm Us co-founder Jody Wissing said. “The reason for the number was that there was a homeless count of about 5,700 people in Dallas and Lin called me on the 23 day of the month to start our organization. That’s how we had a goal of 5,723 blankets.”

While that may seem like a lot of blankets to find every year, there’s usually a reason the homeless don’t have the clothes or blankets that they received last year.

“They have several reasons for not having the clothes,” Wissing said. “The police do sweeps down there and there things get taken to keep the city clean, the homeless people don’t have laundry machines so they wear their stuff out pretty quickly, and they also steal from each other.”

The organization is partnered with Our Calling, which is a christian organization that helps the homeless back on their feet and to help them to learn about the bible.

“Because of their partnership with us, we were able to collect over 6,000 coats and blankets to distribute to our homeless friends on Thanksgiving Day and the rest of the winter season,” Our Calling Volunteer and Events Coordinator Cali McCormac said. “We are incredibly grateful for their friendship and the for all of the hard work they do in serving the homeless.”