LEWISTON — Winter’s hard, but it’s especially tough on the poor, like Kat Hadley and Bill Abel.

Sub-freezing temperatures on Monday brought them to the Trinity Jubilee Center.

Hadley is homeless.

“I’m couch surfing,” she said. She doesn’t have a winter jacket. She was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sneakers.

Abel said he’s “completely homeless.” He wore an old winter jacket and black boots.

“At night I try to find heated hallways and hope nobody kicks me out or I don’t get arrested,” he said.

At the drop-in Trinity Jubilee Center, Executive Director Erin Reed is asking for residents to downsize their closets and donate unneeded winter jackets, winter boots, hats and gloves, blankets and sleeping bags to help out those less fortunate.

Some people live outdoors, she said. Others live in apartments that don’t have a lot of heat. Warm boots are needed because “we have a lot of men who work outdoors,” she said.

The Jubilee Center will take anything it can get — all sizes, kids, women’s and men’s.

“Everybody’s coming in trying to get coats,” Reed said.

But there’s a big need for large men’s winter jackets and coats. “Generally we don’t get men’s clothes donated as often,” she said.

While women shop and are more likely to buy new coats and jackets, then donate the old ones, men don’t. They keep wearing the same ones, Reed said.

Also, a large-sized men’s jacket or coat is more practical because it can be used for more people. A medium-sized woman could wear a large man’s coat, “but I can’t put a middle-aged man in a small, pink, women’s jacket,” she said.

Many of the poor don’t have any winter outerwear. Often they walk around wearing sweatshirts “and sneakers that are falling apart,” she said.

On Monday, a young man in his 20s who was homeless came in for a winter jacket.

“He picked up a job tonight (Monday) with no winter coat,” she said. The job involved second-shift work in a cold space.

Another person who responded to her plea brought in winter wear and the young man got a warm, winter coat.

“He was pretty thrilled about it,” Reed said.

Some donations came in after Reed posted a plea for help Dec. 16 on the center’s Facebook page.

Anne Williams of Lewiston was dropping off blankets and a sleeping bag on Monday.

“I heard they needed them,” Williams said.

Compared to other winters, this year seems tougher with the cold and meager outerwear donations.

At Goodwill on Lisbon Street, there was little if any men’s winter outerwear to be found. There were plenty of men’s blazers and spring/fall jackets, but few if any winter gear.

At the thrift store, donations for warm outerwear are also down this year, the store manager said.

The Trinity Jubilee Center, at 247 Bates St. adjacent to Kennedy Park, is open 8-3 Monday-Friday, 10-12:30 on Saturdays.

While it is not an overnight shelter, those in need are welcome to stay indoors until the center closes at 3 p.m.

With temperatures predicted to fall below zero late Monday and early Tuesday, “I think I’ll pull an all-nighter” so the center stays open and people can stay, Reed said.