Cozy For A Cause | Blanket+CareKit Event

During this event, we were given a presentation on the Dorothy House and learned about the unhoused population of Memphis, along with how this community was working to fight homelessness in the city. I am very grateful to be a part of a community filled with love and willing to help those who are not as fortunate. After listening to a presentation, we were paired with groups of students who either made blankets or care kits to distribute at the Dorothy House. I am extremely grateful that I was able to experience this event and know that me volunteering would help my community.

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I had a lovely time hearing about the Dorthy Day house, and I'll be keeping an eye out for ways to support them in the future, me and three or 4 others made an adorable blanket together and I had so much fun. Food was also provided, which was unexpected but very nice nontheless!

Through Cozy For A Cause I was able to develop my problem solving and critical thinking, Arts and crafts is not one of my strong suits and am not that creativity but having to work in a group with something I wasn’t comfortable with helped. From now on doing services and events I am not used to will help me get out my bubble and develop other skills. Before we started making blankets we had a presentation on who the blankets were going to, The Dorothy Day House. They are a long term shelter that provides housing for homeless families. It helped me realize that a lot of these shelters either don’t let families stay for long, only take certain genders, or charge families to stay. During the service I talked to a couple people within the EL Program I have never really gotten the chance to speak to. It was great seeing we had things in common and making new friends to do future service events with. Our service was making goodie baskets and blankets for those who were staying in the house. This will help keep the kids warm during this very cold winter, as well as providing goods that parents won’t have to spend their money on. I think that choosing these two things to make was a very good idea, because it allowed for creativity within the groups and allowed a fun little spin on it. So if I am being honest, I did not know how hard arts and crafts was. I don’t know if it was just because I am not used to it but cutting the fabric and having tie it and then stretch it out was very difficult for me. But with the help from my new friends it wasn’t too hard and we got the job done.