My company leaders came up with a
new charity program this year for the first time as part of our corporate
responsibility. The project involves building homes for needy families in
impoverished areas of different California counties. These homes are cozy
two-bedroom homes which are 100% paid for by our company. Employees are
welcomed to volunteer and join teams in charge of separate functions. I joined
the kitchen team and our responsibility was to build the kitchen. I looked for pre made cabinets as they are easy to
install and we began our kitchen project two weeks ago. The whole project lasts
up to three months with people volunteering about 5 hours per week.
I have never done any type of
community service in my life and this experience has been very rewarding for
me. We received pictures of the family we are building the home for and we are
going to meet them in person once the house is built. Their faces do not look
all that happy on the pictures and I just hope that it changes once they see
their new home. These people have gone through tough economic times, many of
them single parent families where one of the parents used to be the
bread-winner until they suffered some physical disability or died. We also
build homes for families of war veterans who after they come back home are
faced with things like disabled veterans or PTSD problems.
