This week has been quite eventful. Part of what Red Cross is chartered to do is services to the armed forces. So for the holiday season the Red Cross Americorps NPRC members at other disaster staff have put together gifts for veterans at John Cochran and Jefferson Barracks. The gifts included fleece blankets, stockings stuffed with coupon books for the hospital canteen, puzzle books, among other items. After putting everything together Danae’, the other Americorps NPRC member, other volunteers and I took the blankets and will be taking the stockings tomorrow to pass out to the veterans. It’s great to give a little to men and women who have given so much.

Danae’ and I also went to Habitat for Humanity yesterday as part of our Americorps partnership activity. Part of the Americorps service experience is being involved in service projects with other organizations in the St. Louis and surrounding communities. We decided to have one of our service projects with Habitat for Humanity. We worked in the Habitat ReStore, which is a thrift store for building materials and appliances. We helped clean up and unload new shipments of donations. We will also have the opportunity to work on build crews doing prefabrication in preparation for the spring, starting in January.

 

Angela Hakim