Clyde’s kitchen was one of two different service learning projects for the eighth grade. Clyde’s Kitchen is soup kitchen in downtown atlanta. They feed hundreds of people each day. During the service learning project we do two things. Clyde's Kitchen is managed by Crossroads Atlanta. Crossroads is a non-profit organizations that help the homeless people get back onto their feet. They help the homeless in four different ways. The four ways are Angels Over Atlanta, Clyde’s Kitchen, housing and the renewal project. Angels Over Atlanta helps people with finding real estate, food and transportation. The goals of this service is to help the less fortunate, get jobs, buy a house and be able to transport throughout the Atlanta area. The housing at
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It showed me that life is not always how it seems. I did not think life was that bad. I thought it was gonna be a lot nicer because when I am downtown it always nice. I was quite scared because I was not used to that kind of surrounding. After my time there it made me want to stay in school and get better grades so I can, be successful and live a good life and to the have money to donate to help the homeless men, women, and kids. The homeless people that attend Clyde’s Kitchen most likely found it interesting that there was six caucasian kids, wearing polo shirts, gray slacks, and penny loafer feeding them. The people told us many things as they walked by to receive their bowl of soup. Men told me things like, “Don’t do drugs” and “Stay in school.” You could tell these people screwed up there life and did not make good choices along the way. All the people their were happy to receive food and thankful we served them food. Everyone there were thankful for everything. Most people there said, “Thank you” when you gave them food. I believe Crossroads was thankful for our service. Crossroads wants students of NDacademy to have a chance to help out the homeless. The agency is very kind to give us the chance to help us feed the homeless. They also wanted us to do this so the homeless people could see other people. They usually see the same volunteering every single
It showed me that life is not always how it seems. I did not think life was that bad. I thought it was gonna be a lot nicer because when I am downtown it always nice. I was quite scared because I was not used to that kind of surrounding. After my time there it made me want to stay in school and get better grades so I can, be successful and live a good life and to the have money to donate to help the homeless men, women, and kids. The homeless people that attend Clyde’s Kitchen most likely found it interesting that there was six caucasian kids, wearing polo shirts, gray slacks, and penny loafer feeding them. The people told us many things as they walked by to receive their bowl of soup. Men told me things like, “Don’t do drugs” and “Stay in school.” You could tell these people screwed up there life and did not make good choices along the way. All the people their were happy to receive food and thankful we served them food. Everyone there were thankful for everything. Most people there said, “Thank you” when you gave them food. I believe Crossroads was thankful for our service. Crossroads wants students of NDacademy to have a chance to help out the homeless. The agency is very kind to give us the chance to help us feed the homeless. They also wanted us to do this so the homeless people could see other people. They usually see the same volunteering every single