This Monday we are celebrating our 3rd birthday at Humanity House. We hope you will stop by our office at 110 East St., anytime between 9-3, tour our building, and enjoy a beverage and a snack.
We have set so many goals for ourselves that sometimes we forget how much we have accomplished in this short span of time. We have gone from meeting at Georgia Mastersons house to having a building of our own. But not without lots of steps in between.
The number of things that we have done has not kept us from achieving our goals. Projects pop up, and ideas are always circling our office. We are lucky to have had amazing people on our board of directors who have always been willing to say yes, we can and who believe that anything is possible if we just put our heads together and think outside of the box. Not too many ideas were shot down in the last three years. The only one that comes to mind was a fundraiser where I would hang from a cherry picker, dressed as a pinata and let kids take a whack at me. (That may still happen.)
One upcoming project is an event called Final Four Family Unplugged.
We are asking families and individuals to unplug from their devices for the final four days of spring break, March 21-24. We will have activities and fun things they can participate in with other people in the community. We hope that they will take the time to write about what they liked and disliked about unplugging, and that they will share with everyone what their familys experience was like.
Though it sometimes feels hard to remember all of the things that Humanity House has accomplished in the last three years, we never forget that without all of the support from so many people in and from Allen County, none of them would have happened.
Every day we are truly so grateful to live in an area that gives so freely to us so families or individuals who are struggling with poverty (temporarily or long-term) can eat, stay warm, have clean clothing and bedding, and a roof over their heads.
We hope to continue our work with those who live in poverty. But we also hope to help bridge the gap that divides the citizens of our county through fun and informative classes, events and play. Laughter, conversations, information, and learning are some of the greatest tools that we have to break down barriers and level the playing field. We are stronger together than we are apart. We accept that challenge and hope to spend the next three years doing just that.
We hope to see you at our office on Monday. Kindness matters!
