Day 1 Family Promise Huan

Today we went to Family Promise on Division street. When we got there, Kelsey explained to the group what we were going to do. She gave us some papers to sign and we had to read some guidelines and agreements. When she finally finished talking, she gave us a small tour of the building and showed us some key places like the storage room and the bathroom. We met Cheryl, Lisa and Barbara and Kelsey explained what they did. For the most part, we did a LOT of sorting through boxes and bags of clothes and moving boxes to trucks.

When we were sorting through clothes, the lady told us that we should put the newer clothes- hats, mittens, pants, sweaters, jackets and scarves into special shelves and put the not so great clothes in the boxes and bags so they could get rid of it. I felt as though it was a waste to give it to some other donation center because if Family Promise didn't want it, why would anyone else? I noticed that there was not a shortage on clothes, rather a shortage on people. The halls were stacked high with bags of clothes and the shelves were packed with shoes and kitchen ware. The only problem was that there weren't enough people to clear it and sort it.