Thursday, March 28, 2013

Thursday 3/28/13

We started our day off by volunteering at Christ's House. At this place we learned about the people who reside there. They are men without houses who have medical problems. At this place, we split up into two groups. One group planted pulled old flowers and planted new ones. The other group cooked the food for everybody. After we were done with these tasks, we joined together with the men and sat and ate with them.    Soon after, we cleaned up the dishes and headed out for Senator Franken's office.

At Senator Franken's office we met with his assistant and discussed issues with housing in Minnesota. One thing that I found shocking was that because of the sequester, all areas lose funding. This is bad because that means that people who live in Section 8 housing, may possibly become homeless. We learned that homelessness is not one of the top priorities because not that many constituents have brought it up as an issue. In order to get this as a higher priority, she told us that we need to write our representatives.

Lastly, we went to D.C. Central Kitchen. At the kitchen we did a lot of food preparation. We did things such as make sandwiches, cut potatoes, and peel the skin and fat off of turkey. When we were done with that, we had a community dinner with the high school group that was there volunteering with us.




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