Our House e-newsletter Late Summer 2014 | 页面 7

been built. Everyone was there celebrating. What did we see? Our board and staff described the scene: A building that was light and open; children and parents bubbling with excitement, exploring every room; homeless families overwhelmed by the love that the community had shown their children by building them this center. Donors who were so impressed that they asked, “can my own children come here?” Everyone together celebrating something beautiful and hopeful, an investment in the most vulnerable children in our community. In place of a run-down building with busted windows and trees growing on top would stand a brightly-lit Children’s Center. It would be the largest investment in the South End Community in over a decade. And it would be a gift to the homeless and near-homeless children who so many in the world do not even know exist.