Water Drop LA

Water Drop LA aims to provide backbone infrastructure, potable water, and a capacity-building workshop series to the network of grassroots, homeless-serving mutual aid organizations in LA County. Many such organizations spend a substantial portion of limited budgets purchasing critical resources from retailers that could be provided for free if they could be received and stored. Water Drop aims to fill this gap by hosting a shared resource hub to secure and receive donations, purchasing water at a lower cost, and hosting a shared space.

Water Drop LA plans to use grant funds to support our weely water distributions to unhoused residents, and to support water provision to partner organizations in LA so that no resident goes without clean drinking water. Building on the trust we have established with unhoused residents in Skid Row by providing water weekly for almost two years, we plan to equip volunteers with the tools to link residents to resources, overcoming traditional barriers to access.