Day 1 Hope Community Fethke
Today I went to Hope Community where I met Felicia, Kathy, and a few other women who worked there. We all sat down around a table for orientation, and they told us a little bit about the organization. Felicia mostly told us how they let women and their children (no men) stay in the apartments and make a plan on how the women can get back on their feet. After orientation, we went to the lobby and put out snacks so the women living in the apartments would come and meet us. Three women came, and they brought their kids, too. We mostly sat and talked to them and played with their kids, and then when they left we had a few minutes to see one of the apartments that they live in. We also saw the room where they keep furniture for the apartments that were donated to the organization. After that we talked to the women working there about things we could do this week. Then we left.
A small experience that I had was when one of the women living there talked about how her baby had been born 32 weeks premature. She said that her baby was only about 3 lbs when she was born. The baby had to stay in the NICU for 17 days, and the woman talked about how hard it was for her and how much she just wanted her baby. I could really tell that she loved her kids and that she just wants the best for them. I am glad she is at Hope Community because I think she will have a hopeful future and that the women working there wanted the same.