My Nonprofit Reviews

I have been volunteering at A Place Called Home since February 22, 2018. I currently also have my 11 year old sister Neida at A Place Called Home. Since the day I started to volunteer i got to meet many great children and staff. Originally when I started it was because of two reasons. One was for my little sister she was new and fairly shy. The second was because since I was little APCH had been around for a long time I always wanted to go but I never could because i went to school too far. So when Neida told me she wanted to join we did research. APCH gives children so many opportunities they get them off the streets of south central, where many of the people I grew up with fell into a bad road. They get these children off away from the streets into a safe haven where they get fed healthy home cooked meals. Where they can fun and be themselves, they get help with school work. There at APCH these children explore many many subjects that most kids can't access in a normal life setting. Children can explore music like learning how to play the piano, guitar, violin, ukulele, flute, drums and more. How to code through digital media or take photographs, make beautiful art work in the art studio. Learn about the community we live in the world we wake up to every day. There are so many many more classes than just those. APCH even has classes where kids can learn about themselves like Girl Power and Journey. All of these and many more classes are available to these wonderful youth. I can truly say with all my heart and soul. That A Place Called Home is a wonderful program an opportunity every child can have and should have. It's a place full of staff with much love, care, and nurture for the children who will all one day rule the world in each day of their lives. Although I may just be an Art studio volunteer I can say I myself have learned to have the respect for life and all around me. The empathy for those who I may come across, the accountability of any action I make. The courage to step out my shell away from the shyness I once had. But most of all that no matter what is happening today out in the world out in the country in our very own neighborhoods. That I will always have hope, hope that these kids take every chance every opportunity that comes their way, every fall, every rise, that they will one day turn the tides of event in their favors. In the end A Place Called Home is not only a program but a sanctuary where a child can be free to be who they are explore what they love. A place for not only students but families to come seek help be it clothes, food, supplies and more. In my eyes A Place Called Home is literally a place Neida and I can call home. It's a second family and friends that she has, a bond that both her and I will hold to a place we can always look back to and remember every memory made and to yet be made.