Today Monday June, 4^th 2012, I volunteered at HOPE with a couple other people from our class. We got there at noon and stayed until 2pm. We met with Angie, she deals with phone calls and women and children, counseling them. She was a very sweet lady. We couldn’t meet with anyone of the people because of confidentially, which is totally understandable. So what Angie had us do was put boxes and bags of clothes and other things for children into the van so we could bring them to the storage place. While the van was being used Angie had us clean shelves and make more room so they could organize better. We put books in boxes that they were giving away; she said we could take any of them if we were interested. Which they had a lot of books about violence, and some of them seemed really interesting. Then she had us clean where the kids play if the parents have no caretaker to watch them during counseling, so we made sure that everything was clean and vacuumed and cleaned other areas of the place.
                I really enjoyed the opportunity to go to HOPE and kind of see what it was about, even though I didn’t get to work with any of the people staying there. Angie gave some information about how many people stay there usually it is up to 20 people but right now they only have 3 which she said is odd for June. We have learned so much in FCS classes about helping people out and this is one way that people help people out. They come and know they will feel safe. It just made me realize that a lot of people are worse off than I am and that I have a pretty good life. It can really make you think.












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