This was such a great volunteer opportunity. I helped sort clothes, clean out the sorting room, and organized the closet to have more weather friendly clothes for summer! It was really eye opening and im glad I got to experience volunteering here!
While at 7Hills today, I was in the clothing room. I was helping clean up and reorganize all the clothes. Ms.Kim also had me start taking the winter clothes off of hangers to make more room for summer and spring clothing. I was able to collect two big bags of winter clothes and heavy jackets to help clear up some space. It is nice to see how much the shelter cares about providing the correct seasonal clothing for the people who use it and try. Right before I was getting ready to leave a man came in and I started helping him find t-shirts and jeans to wear. He had explained to me that he had left his clothing at another shelter but had to go to the hospital one day and whenever he came back, all his clothes were thrown out. Because of this he did not have any clothes so it was nice that I could help him find some t-shirts, shoes, and jeans before I left. This shelter truly does so much for the people who utilize it in our community and every time I came and volunteer here I can tell the impact it is having on these peoples lives.
Today at 7hills I was in both the sorting and clothing room. I started in the clothing room by reorganizing everything. That took about 30 minutes but there was another volunteer in the room helping me so it made the task go by faster. Once we were done in the clothing room we moved into the sorting room. When we got into the sorting room, there were a lot of clothes and they also had gotten a big donation. It felt like we barely made a dint in the pile of clothing, but I was glad to see that we were slowly filling the shelves with clothes as we went. Today there were not many people coming into the shelter but it was still impactful to see that I was making an impact on the shelter.
