Case Study: Change For Good

On December, 20, 2015, my mother and I volunteered for an organization called Change For Good, to help reconstruct an apartment of a single mother named Toni. Toni lives alone in a run-down neighborhood in Baltimore with her six year old disabled daughter. Mr.Corey, the leader of Change for Good, partnered up with my mother to help improve Toni's living conditions. While one of the volunteer members took Toni to be pampered, the rest of the members went to work. One of the things that shocked me about this project, was the area. Although my mother is a single mother like Toni, my mom and I never had to live in such an area like that. The streets were narrow, due to the compact cars, which only made the streets big enough for a one way drive. The front yard of Toni’s house was polluted with empty bottles and cans and crumpled up newspapers, in addition to the lack of grass. Although I walked in on the apartment already in the process of being renovated, I immediately joined in. There were eight of us who volunteered to help out with the place and there were a great deal of people who donated items and money for home supplies (furniture, tv’s, curtains, etc). …show more content…
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