Building Community Strength Day

On April 8, 2006, Club members from all over the city spent the day volunteering at Hannah House. Hannah House is a transitional facility for homeless women and their children. More than that, it is the only transitional homeless shelter in the DC area.

MOST Club members, facilitators, and community volunteers spent this Saturday steam cleaning the carpets of both homes of Hannah House with steam machines and cleaning solution generously donated by Home Depot.

After cleaning the carpets, some of the more technologically gifted members took time to network and organize the computer lab.

 

By the end of the day, not only were the carpets clean,  but the computers were also running better than ever.


BARRY FARMS FIELD CLEANUP & YOUTH SOCCER CLINICS

On March 25, 2006, MOST Club members, facilitators, and community volunteers, in partnership with D.C. United, spent the day cleaning a field in the Barry Farms neighborhood in order to make it playable for a D.C. United youth soccer league. The field was in dire shape, with broken glass, bottles and cans, and food wrappers, as well as a significant amount of paper waste. As with many of our Community Strength Projects, members made their way from all over the city to Annacostia to participate in the field cleanup. Members removed 15 bags of garbage from the field by the end of the day. To follow through on efforts to make the field playable, we also had veteran School Without Walls soccer players and MOST Club members intern with D.C. United to help facilitate the youth soccer clinics.