Neighborhoods without borders

Today we went to Terra Cafe, just as we had promised the owner, Mr. Terence Dickins we would to assist him in the preparation of lunches for the homeless in this city.  From what I understand about the details of this offering of food to the homeless, it follows the outlines of "Neighborhood without borders" a program of neighbors helping neighbors.

We arrived at 9 am, and shortly thereafter we were greeted by Tiffany who asked the question, "are you one of the volunteers who came to make sandwiches for the homeless?"  We responded positively and entered the restaurant, situated at the south east corner of East 25th Street and began to work by moving the tables and setting up a system already planned out to ensure that the 250 sandwiches could be made in time for delivery at lunch time.  There was a set of three tables for sandwich preparation, eight tables were set up for the placement of lunch bags and another table for the distribution of fruit and pastries. 

A crew of eager young people started to arrive and they were anxious to start the actual preparation of the lunches and assisted in getting the table cloths on the sandwich table, setting up the bags in rows of five and distributing the pastries and other goodies into the bags, to be set into another bag to bring a total of 50 bags per shelter that Terence was going to visit.  There was not one complaint there and everyone was happy to have whatever job was available and they knew precisely what needed to be done with very little direction.

Shortly as the system worked well we were on our way to finishing the 250 sandwiches and they were ready for distribution.  The atmosphere was casual, no one preached to anyone and everyone was pleasant to each other.  It goes to show that when you have a popular idea and working with positive young people that you can achieve the almost impossible.  We have decided to make this one of our projects as well and if you have some time, check in with Terra Cafe and check out the schedule to see if it works in with your ability to assist.  You shouldn't be disappointed because the people are fun to be with and the purpose of it is simply great.