Day 2 YWCA Workman

Today at the YWCA my group and I went continued the work that we were doing yesterday in one of their storage rooms. We had to somehow create room for another whole van, but we made it work. When we were finished with that the lady showed us another storage room but instead of kitchen and bedroom supplies it was filled with bathroom and cleaning supplies. Just like the other room it was really full and you could barely get inside. We started sorting all of the paper towel and toilet paper and there was so much we literally made a paper towel moutain. By the time we were finished it was pretty much time to go to the bus, so we headed upstairs where I met Angela's mother who works at the YWCA, and we went upstairs to her office to get candy. When we came downstairs we still had a little bit of down time so we sat in their library. While we were sitting there two little boys came in and were extremely friendly and kept saying hi. One of the ladies was giving out stuffed animals and one of the boys chose a big stuffed duck that was bigger than his whole head. When we had to go wait for the bus the two little boys said bye over and over again. It was really cute.

One of the things that I learned about homelessness so far is that becoming homeless can be caused from many different reasons. I used to think that a person became homeless mainly because they were stupid with their money and spent it all on drugs or something like that. But what I learned at the Salvation Army building was that a person can become homeless because of unemployment, domestic violence, abuse, divorce, physical illness, mental illness, bankruptcy, and bad financial luck etc. Because of these reasons even though someone may be very smart with their money they can still become homeless. That just goes to show how even people who are in a good financial state can still become homeless.