[KHTS] The Bridge to Home Emergency Winter Homeless Shelter acquired clothes and food on Tuesday after the Action Family Foundation and KHTS AM-1220 delivered donations they have been collecting through the month of December.

More than five boxes filled with shoes, scarves, coats, socks and food were donated to the shelter, which will then be distributed to the homeless that come through the shelter every day.

“It’s a passion of Action Family Foundation to help anybody in need,” said Cary Quashen, the founder of Action Family Foundation. “Especially right now during the holidays. The weather is cold and people are displaced.”

This is the first year that Action Family Foundation has taken donations but Quashen said “it will not be the last.”
Bridge to Home serves many of the homeless in Santa Clarita, doing what they can to provide items the homeless need day in and day out, Quashen said.

“The official number says 300 people (are homeless in Santa Clarita),” said Tim Davis, executive director of Bridge to Home. “We think there is 1,000 in Santa Clarita.”

Action Family Foundation and KHTS AM-1220 were joined by BalaCore, the Santa Clarita Gazette/Canyon Country Magazine and Whitening Lightning/Gerard Cosmetics to collect donations for the shelter.

The shelter operates everyday from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. until March 15, 2016 with a capacity to fill 60 men or women, according to the organization’s website. Though the shelter may stay open later into 2016 if there is a weather alert for Los Angeles County caused by El Nino.