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This week Students from Jackson State University visited Georgetown Ministry Center to learn about homelessness first hand.  Roy took a group out on Monday to see where people sleep on the street.  Today Gunther took another group out.  We seem to be developing a curriculum on homelessness.  We visited sites where homeless people lived but avoided going into spaces where homeless people were at the time.  Students had an opportunity to see the conditions homeless people live under on our streets.  An exchange student from Yemen said that he had thought that everyone in the US was rich and wondered why the government didn’t do something about it.  Were it that simple.

They were great!  We really enjoyed having them.

Are you a curent or retired World Bank employee? We need at least 10 World Bank employees or retirees to pledge at least $50 each as part of the World Bank Community Connections Fund. (Cumulative donation must be a minimum of $500.00 and no less than 10 persons.)

Please help us if you are an employee or retiree or if you know one. You can email your commitment to Claire, our Director of Development, at Claire@gmcgt.org. We need 10 commitments by March 15 so that we can apply to be reinstated for the 2013 campaign.

Today, we received a donation of blankets from the National Center on Family Homelessness and Capital Group Companies. Our guests were so happy when they saw what was in the box. I barely managed to snap a picture; half the box was gone within 30 seconds!

While many college students are soaking up the sun on beaches everywhere, some students are spending spring break doing community service. This week, a group of students from Loyola University visited us not once, not twice, but THREE times! One day they spent time hanging out with our guests in our center. Another day they did street outreach with Roy, and on Thursday night, they prepared a delicious spaghetti dinner for our winter shelter.

And then they wrote us a thank you letter. It is us who should be thanking them for all of their help. So thank you, students from Loyola University! We hope you had fun working with us.

Sandra, one of our amazing crocheters, whipped up this basket in one hour this afternoon. We only have one thing to say: Wow.