Our House e-newsletter March & April 2013 | Page 5

Photos: Pg 5 During her volunteer project in Our Club in November 2008, Sydney helps
Morrison, Kevon, & Kelly choose vegetables to build a fun, healthy snack shaped like faces
& bugs. Pg 6 Sydney helps Kevon, Rory, & Kelly with their vegetable creatures.

biggest impact may have been the influence
that Our House’s kids had on their volunteer.

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“This was my first major volunteering experience. A lot of the kids were in my grade and
knew my friends.” Sydney, remembering the
new ideas and feelings that stayed with her
after her volunteer project more than four
years ago, says “homelessness can happen to
anyone. Our House does such a good job of
changing my perception of homelessness. I
had always thought of it as someone on a
street corner. Serving at Our House has really
changed that perception.”
Sydney’s parents, Jan and Larry Alman, are
also involved with Our House, and the family
had discussed Our House’s plans for the new

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