Presenter: Peter Samuelson, Founder and President
$10,000 Grant Winner for Best Overall Presentation
www.edar.org

EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof), Inc. is a charity providing mobile shelters, functionally each a shopping cart that unfolds into a single-user, robust tent, to homeless people living on our streets. Each EDAR is a four-wheeled mobile unit that carries belongings and facilitates storage and recycling by day. At night, EDAR unfolds into a framed sleeping enclosure with a bed.

EDAR currently has sixty initial units placed through shelter partners and will distribute at least 1000 units in 2009. The units serve as an enabling alternate to the traditional Shelter system for the 80% of the homeless for whom there are chronically no beds due to lack of resources and also serve as one relationship stepping stone to permanency for those who would not normally choose to use a Shelter’s services.

EDAR is seeking funds, pro-bono services, institutional partners and volunteers to enable distribution of EDAR units to the 60,000 men, women and children otherwise sleeping rough around us in the County of Los Angeles with our ultimate goal to provide shelter throughout the United States.