Service Trip to Maine!

Hey! So Friday morning Chelsea, Cameron, Theresa, grace, Mrs.V, Mrs Bodell and i returned from our little journey into the depths of Maine. We spent the week in Orland, Maine at a place called H.O.M.E. which stands for Home workers organized for more employment, a fitting acronym seeing as how HOME helps to rehabilitate and teach people who have nothing. The general "mission" of HOME, or at least what i understand of it, is to provide shelter, food, lodging, work, and community to people who need help getting back on their feet. So, a person transitioning from homelessness to a state of having a home can stay at HOME and work until everything is finalized. But that's not all because families can use the soup kitchen aspect of HOME if they don't have enough food, or the grocery food is too expensive. HOME also has these workshops, a pottery barn, leather shop, glass shop and weaving barn that people can take lessons from and learn the trade. The things that happen at HOME are very exciting and really cool, even if the campus is a little run down and shabby. The work that we did changed with each day or even within the day. As soon as one project was finished we moved on to another -- the amount of work needed to be done was, and still is, endless.