ChristineFernandes

3/10/09

Reflection

Our project today was to help out at the Music City Charity run by the Church of Nazarene. This church has a adjoining storage house where they collect clothes given to them from all the churches, they then separate them and put them out n a central hall where they invite the less fortunate to come in and select the clothing they need. The supervisor there Bob said that they kept a lot of baby clothing as that seemed to be some of the most expensive clothing items. I also took notice that he sort of crowd that seemed to come appeared to be middle class families mostly lingering around the baby clothing area. Apart from clothing they also sort out toys shoes and cooking items, some which are in good condition get sent to places that can sell these items and proceeds in to helping other charity drives. The thing that has become evident to me in this week is that almost all charity drives are running short of help to do the menial chores such as sorting and organizing the sort of thing that most of us over look. Having the donations sent in and stored is just one step, be able to sort and organize the items facilitates their daily function and helps them to do more since they can concentrate their efforts on other tasks. For the most part we sort out over 20 large Bags of items and helped clean out their storage place. Bob had to make two trips to drop of all that was sorted to various agencies. All in all it was quite a productive day!