Our House e-newsletter September 2011 | Page 15

As a child who
grew up playing
in parks, loving
to swing, excited
by the thrill of
climbing high, I
knew the power
a playground
could have.
But that didn’t
change our
reality. We were
a homeless
shelter with
barely enough
money to feed our
residents. A
new playground
seemed out of
the question.

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