10/12/2021 1 Comment working the kinksWith week three of Genius Hour coming to an end, it has quickly hit us that this time is flying by faster than we thought it would. So, what did we do this week?
This week was a productive week in terms of reaching out to other homeless shelters, getting care packages done/put together for the future visits to the homeless shelters, creating a schedule, and working the kinks of our project. We began the week by discovering an organization that is more geared to the idea that we originally had, called Watchmen of the Streets. This Christian-based organization isn’t considered a homeless shelter because they go out as a group of volunteers and go to the homeless, pray over them, and interact with them more. We were thrilled when we stumbled upon this as this was more along the lines of what we wanted to do originally, not as much a homeless shelter. Their website and the pictures shared were incredibly uplifting/inspiring and we are hopeful this works out for us. This was also a great discovery because we have not yet heard back from Bethesda Center of the Homeless. With that being said, we inquired and submitted an application to volunteer. We are excited and hope this works out! As we began to look into this idea more, they suggested ways to get involved with their organization. This included making homeless care packages, making visits to the homeless camps, or praying for volunteers and ministers. We began thinking from there and decided to create prayer cards for the care packages. This led us to coordinating a time for us to go out and gather supplies for these care packages. We had a few scheduling issues because we are all busy and involved with different things, but Jada and Kadence were able to go out and buy supplies. They were able to find hygiene supplies and food at Walmart and Dollar General that kept them on-budget. From here, they created six care packages that had products such as various snacks, hand sanitizer, tissues, deodorant, wipes, gum, chapstick, etc. Despite our scheduling issues, we feel good about our progress we made this week and hope to hear from Watchmen of the Streets soon.
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Brooklyn Lakey
10/20/2021 12:01:40 pm
This is such a great idea! I think it is great how you guys are looking for ways to better the community's around us!
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