Josie Yoon
6/20, 6/22, 6/27; 4-7pm
LiveMoves
Charmayne and Caitlin
cbellamy@lifemoves.org
I thought I had a pretty good idea of what my PACT project would be like because I had volunteered at the LifeMoves family shelter in San Mateo before. However, the Redwood City location was different even at first glance: the building is much older and smaller, and there were only 5 families there. I believe that volunteering at the Redwood City Family House gave me a more meaningful and educational experience because I had more casual interactions with the people living there. These interactions helped me see the fear and discomfort that many of the families are experiencing—no one expects to be homeless.
My main job for these visits was staging units for new families who were moving in. We only gave them the most necessary items, but I never realized how many items are actually necessary—pots and pans, pillows, towels, and much more. Since LifeMoves runs on donations, we didn’t have a trash can to give one of the units, which was an item I definitely take for granted but actually has a great impact on convenience that I had never realized. Staging units helped me better understand the difficulty of supporting a household: aside from paying rent and buying food, families must be able to furnish their home with basic necessities.
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