Hello from Abilities United Community Connections!
This week just flew by and we certainly were busy. We logged 55 service hours to the community in just four days of work! What an accomplishment.
We started the week at Collective Roots Garden in East Palo Alto. We helped plant seeds, take care of vegetables and do other garden tasks. On Monday we also helped out at the Palo Alto Red Cross.
Tuesday was just as busy with work sites at Mitchell Park, The National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy and the BOK Horse Ranch. We really enjoy Tuesdays because we get to work with the animals outside. We also started helping with food distribution at the Inn Vision Homeless Shelter at the VA Hospital in Menlo Park. It was a lot of fun to unload the food from the delivery trucks.
On Wednesday we worked hard in our Abilities United garden. Pretty soon we will be packaging all of the lavender we have been harvesting. We also helped make food boxes at the Ecumenical Hunger Program.
At the Nine Lives Cat Foundation we helped with laundry and took care of the shelter cats.
It has been a very productive week and we all feel really great about our work. We look forward to following up and continuing our good work next week. Stay tuned! And thanks for reading!
Andrea
Abilities United Community Connections activities and announcements
Sunday, August 22, 2010
What a week!
Hello Everyone!
Once again, happy summer and welcome to the Community Connections blog. This has been a very productive week for us. At the Community School of Music and Art we have been working on a recorder project. We have cleaned, assembled and organized 500 recorders for the fall music program. We have been doing this project for several years and they really appreciate our help. It usually takes us a few weeks but we finish the entire project.
At the East Palo Alto YMCA we did a lot of landscaping. We trimmed bushes and cleaned up the yard outside. The director told us that the area has never looked so good! Earlier this year we organized the pool house for the summer swimmers.
We also worked several shifts at the Second Harvest Food Bank in San Carlos. Our group is getting really good at separating food and making food baskets for the homeless. We love our work there!
Next week promises to be a very busy week as well. Stay tuned for an update! And thanks for reading.
Andrea
Once again, happy summer and welcome to the Community Connections blog. This has been a very productive week for us. At the Community School of Music and Art we have been working on a recorder project. We have cleaned, assembled and organized 500 recorders for the fall music program. We have been doing this project for several years and they really appreciate our help. It usually takes us a few weeks but we finish the entire project.
At the East Palo Alto YMCA we did a lot of landscaping. We trimmed bushes and cleaned up the yard outside. The director told us that the area has never looked so good! Earlier this year we organized the pool house for the summer swimmers.
We also worked several shifts at the Second Harvest Food Bank in San Carlos. Our group is getting really good at separating food and making food baskets for the homeless. We love our work there!
Next week promises to be a very busy week as well. Stay tuned for an update! And thanks for reading.
Andrea
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Welcome!
Hello! And welcome to the Abilities United Community Connections Blog!
I am Andrea Throndson, Community Connections Developer, and I will be reporting on our activities throughout the year. Stay tuned to learn more about our volunteer work out in the community, our educational seminars and other great events.
It's quite inspiring to see all of the wonderful work our participants are accomplishing. We couldn't do it without the terrific support of family, friends and staff members. This blog is for everyone, so feel free to send in comments! We would love to hear from everyone!
Enjoy!
Andrea
I am Andrea Throndson, Community Connections Developer, and I will be reporting on our activities throughout the year. Stay tuned to learn more about our volunteer work out in the community, our educational seminars and other great events.
It's quite inspiring to see all of the wonderful work our participants are accomplishing. We couldn't do it without the terrific support of family, friends and staff members. This blog is for everyone, so feel free to send in comments! We would love to hear from everyone!
Enjoy!
Andrea
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