Emmaus House's Lydia Wong in Evanston Now

[Catholic Worker]

https://evanstonnow.com/helping-refugees-survive-our-freezing-weather/

'Lydia Wong, a Chi Welcome volunteer, is part of the Catholic Worker Movement, which Wong says teaches that “all of us need to take responsibility for each other. That’s what it means to love one another.”

Lydia Wong loads donations for refugees into her truck.

So Wong takes the supplies from Immanuel Lutheran to the 300 refugees at a couple of CPD stations on the West Side of town. (According to ABC7, there are currently 2,800 migrants living outside of Chicago police stations, waiting to be placed into shelters.).

Wong says “what we’re doing now, having people sleep at police stations with no access to showers and warmth is not a solution.” '