Mission Year Atlanta

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Volunteering Love God, Love People, Nothing Else Matters

Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, each of the members of our house volunteered at various places in the neighborhood. We worked from about 9:30am until 6:30pm. Each girl in the house worked at a different place. My specific work places included The Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children, Inc . I worked in the daycare area. I have only pictures of the women I worked with from this experience because of legal permission that needs to be granted from the parent to take pictures of children. In the afternoons I worked at Bright Futures Atlanta which is an organized afterschool program, hoping to give children in the inner city a hope for a brighter future. Georgia Tech Students come in from the area and provide tutoring services as well as Bible study material. The organization is run out of a couples household and maintains about thirty children daily.

These were some of the women that I worked with at the shelter. The shelter provides hot breakfast and lunches. It also provides women an opportunity to seek out jobs, create resumes, properly dress and learn how to maintain an apartment and budget. Various different services are offered throughout the day and then women are transported to night shelters in the evening.

Throughout the year, Bright Futures Atlanta sponsers various activities to raise money. The first picture in the upper left is from an art auction. The middle top picture is at the couples house on a weekday. The picture to the right on the top is from the afterschool program during the summertime. The pavillion is a decorated for a summer theme, this year was disco. The bottom two pictures are from field trips that were taken this summer. BFA makes a point to taking the kids out of the city to be exposed to different things that they might not usually get to see. Field trips included trips to a camp called God's Farm, a lake known as Sun Valley Beach and other trips around the city.

These pictures show my teammates at their worksites over the course of the year. Candace is at her high school with some of her students. Holly is working with a client. Whitney is in the office with the nurse and reciptionist. Jenny is with a young girl from Bright Futures. Amber is working at the recreation center and Faith is at her daycare playing outside.

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