My First Day

Yesterday was my first day working at the Little Bit Foundation in the city. I had a really great time. I was there with 2 other Burroughs students and together we worked on a couple different projects and did a lot of laundry. The foundation's facilities consist of a small office and a warehouse. All the space is donated by a company that they share the warehouse space with. We worked in the warehouse for the day doing a couple different things. Our first project was to inventory and sort a donation that they had just received. We wrote a list of everything that had been donated (mostly clothes and one chewed up dog collar that we immediately threw away) and then put the new clothes into the bins in the warehouse. The donation was large and took us a little while to get through. Our next task was to fill some of the orders that had come in from the schools. The Foundation has a liaison in all the schools that they work with and the liaison sends in orders to the Foundation for what each specific kid needed. We packed orders for a couple different schools and the kids from these schools needed uniform clothing, everyday clothing, shoes, socks, and underwear. We packed each kid a bag with what they needed and it was really fun to pick out the clothes for the kids and put together outfits. It was great to know how much the kids would appreciate receiving these packages and how much they would help. After lunch, our final project was to organize all the shoes in the warehouse. Little Bit gets all its shoes as donations from Fila since the founder of Fila is from St. Louis. Fila sends Little Bit a lot of shoes and there were boxes of them that had not been organized. We went through and organized all the shoes by gender and size and we were able to clear a lot of the boxes off the shelf. We also got to use a wobbly warehouse ladder because a lot of the boxes were up on high shelves. It was a good day and I felt like I had helped a lot. Next week I will be able to go into a school and interact with the kids that we are helping and I am really looking forward to that. Also the other Burroughs students and I are going to have a supply drive starting sometime next week, probably to collect books and stuffed animals. So far I am really enjoying my May project and I can't wait to continue next week!