Waiting on the train at the station
Miami HEAT Arena view from the train
Working in the thrift store at Miami Rescue Mission
More work at rescue mission
what we did today was, we traveled to a place called Cph#1. What that stands for is Community Partnership for the Homless 1st location. The place is for families that need help services, shelter, day care, and offer classes and jobs. what i helped them do there is clean there property. Tye Lance and me went outside to sweep and pick up all trash from the sidewalks, bushes and and everywhere else on the two block property. The two girls in our group got to watch kids that were in daycare. There were 39 kids from 3-15 yrs old and one teacher. the room that the day care was in had air condition and was really loud. That is what we pretty much did for the day.
-Matt Bernaix
The morning started early for our group. We fixed breakfast this morning for everyone. The menu was Pancakes and cereal. Katie slightly over slept and she was a little late getting to breakfast but it was ok. Our group went to the Miami Rescue Mission today and helped out. We met Cheryl. She ran the Bargin Barn part of the mission. We sorted clothes and hangers and helped arrange the store. The Bargin Barn is kind of like the Helping Hand in Upland. After that we went and ate lunch at the mission with the residents there. The food was actually really good, or at least I thhought so. We went on tour of the Mission with one of the residents, Billy, he had been there for 5 months and was entering the upper part of the program. He was a really cool guy. The Mission consists of 4 main buildings. A cafeteria with living quarters, a clothing warehouse which contains the Bargin barn, a community sheter with a basketball court and tv's and games, and a Medical Clinic for the residents. Everything the Mission has is completly donated. The work we did today was not hard but we still got a lot from the experience. It was really an amazing exerience to see what all people can do just through donations and people's support.
-Brad Banter-Brad Banter
