While we were placed in the distribution room the workers were all in the check in areas. The community members were a mixture of inviting and unimpressed. Most of them were kind and only interacted with the volunteers when giving their cards for a towel or receiving any of the personal items. Others were split between not talking or interacting with the volunteers at all, and pushing for a full drawn conversation between the person and the volunteer. Many of them just wanted small conversations about life and events in the day, others were pushy and sarcastic as to why we were in fact volunteering. Many of the community members were ‘clean kept’ and would not fit the classic definition of homeless in a glance. It was one of the things that surprised me the most, is how well kept the members looked as well as how organized they'd keep their belongings and
While we were placed in the distribution room the workers were all in the check in areas. The community members were a mixture of inviting and unimpressed. Most of them were kind and only interacted with the volunteers when giving their cards for a towel or receiving any of the personal items. Others were split between not talking or interacting with the volunteers at all, and pushing for a full drawn conversation between the person and the volunteer. Many of them just wanted small conversations about life and events in the day, others were pushy and sarcastic as to why we were in fact volunteering. Many of the community members were ‘clean kept’ and would not fit the classic definition of homeless in a glance. It was one of the things that surprised me the most, is how well kept the members looked as well as how organized they'd keep their belongings and