Day 1 Degage Ministries Feddema
I went to Degage, which is a shelter/restaurant/store where homeless people can go. It was only two of us, so walking in there was almost scary because we were surrounded by people we didn't know, going to a place that we had never been to before to help people in ways we didn't even know how to. But it actually wasn't all that bad. When we first got in, we went to the sign in desk and the lady brought us behind their little store counter to help out for a few minutes until she was done helping consumers. The rest of the day we spent doing things that were not originally planned. Instead of "going downstairs to organize stuff" we got to be with the actually people up there and get to work with them. The big room had a showering place, a little laundry-mat, a room for housing, a room for personal stuff and a room for getting an ID. There was also the "store" were you go to pick up your mail, purchase soup and tokens for the laundry-mat, sign up for showers, buy things are major reduced prices like t-shirts, socks, gloves for usually only around a dollar. So we got to work there. People would come up with their ID and we would check if they had an mail, others would give us their name and we would unlock their locker for them (where they keep all their possessions--they can rent them out). It was really fun because we got to actually talk to people and meet them.