Eight clients and two staff members from N Street Village, a Washington charity that serves homeless and low-income women, are among 1,000 people invited to attend the People’s Inaugural Ball on January 20 to celebrate Barack Obama’s swearing in.

The ball is one of several People’s Inaugural Project events held by the Stafford Foundation, a private foundation headed by the Virginia businessman Earl W. Stafford, the founder of a Centreville technology company, who paid $1-million to purchase an inauguration hotel package offered by the JW Marriott, in Washington, to ensure that Americans who are poor or disabled will have an opportunity to participate in the inauguration festivities. The foundation is also reaching out to wounded veterans and people who have suffered domestic abuse or face other troubles.

After seeing a news article about the People’s Inaugural Project, N Street…

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