Food and Friends Shelter
Sorting Clothes at the Shelter
This week was the sprint finish to the end of our Happy Project clothing drive. Early on in the week I had a phone conference with Caroline to discuss our progress with our project. She was really enthusiastic with all that we were able to accomplish, and with the fact that we were really close to our goal of 2,000 donations.
Wednesday morning I devoted to collecting, sorting, counting and delivering the clothes to the shelter. The process I was quite familiar with at this point still took a long time. It was time-consuming to go by all of our donation locations, and the bags and boxes of clothes were really heavy! It was a task that was much easier done with two people, but unfortunately I had to work alone on Wednesday. Dropping off the clothes at the shelter, however, made all the hard work worth it! At first I was really skeptical to go to the shelter by myself, because being around all of the homeless people in the part of Norman that the shelter is located was really out of my comfort zone. But the more thought I put into it, and the more I went to the shelter, I realized it was a really great reminder that there are people in need all over the world. I too frequently get caught up in my own life, and living in my "college bubble", that visiting to the shelter was a really great reality check.
Wednesday after noon, I met with Shay. We started to really think about our Fashion Show viewing party. Since we already had our location set, we just brainstormed on what to do for food, prizes and giveaways, music and decorations. While we were brainstorming ideas, we were also checking prizes on the internet. We only had a few hundred dollars to spend on the viewing party and it was surprising how expensive food and decorations could be. We spent time working out our budget and deciding how we were going to allocate our money.
Friday was the last day to pick up clothes from the donation spots. I repeated the collection process and brought the last batch of donations to the shelter. We exceeded our goal of 2,000 items and were able to collect 2,007!!!! It was such a great feeling to know that we were able to meet our goal. Everyone at the shelter was so thankful for all that we had done and knowing that we were able to help that many people was such an awesome feeling!
Saturday I spent cleaning up after our project. I went to all of the donation stations to pick up the empty boxes. I also took down all the flyers that we had posted on campus. Lastly, I took the cardboard boxes to a recycle center. It was a great feeling to finally be done with our Happy Project.
Monday 11:15-12:15 (1 hour)
Wednesday 10:00-1:00 and 3:00-5:00 (5 hours)
Friday 11:45-2:45 (3 hours)
Saturday 12:00-1:30 (1.5 hours)
This week = 10.5 hours
Total = 126.75 hours
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