volunteer work

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Okay, I lied when i said John and I got to come home and enjoy tv at night. This is not always true. John is a teachers advisor at church so he helps teach young men ages 14-16 on sundays and do scouting projects with them on wednesday nights. I am the beehive advisor at church so i teach young women ages 12-13 on sundays and do activities with them on wednesday nights. I have also been trying to be more involved in my community so I have signed up for some volunteer groups. The first group that I have worked with is Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers. In participating in this group I have helped remodel and decorate women's shelter rooms and walk the 5k Little Rock Susan Komen Race for the cure. I wish i taken pictures I did the race a few weeks ago and it was an amazing experience i hope to do again next year. It is the 3rd largest breast cancer race in American and over 50,000ish women come out to walk it. It is women for the most part-men have a separate walk- and it is more of a parade over downtown little rock and the bridges. There where bands, cheerleaders, bellydancers, frat houses, stripping firemen, pink water fountains, confetti, and bikers all along the edges cheering and serenading us on as we walked. Everyone wore a ton of pink and lots wore wigs and costumes. It was amazing to see all the survivors walking, and sad to see all the women's names of women lost or currently fighting the battle on the participants shirts. My recent project has been to join a group our school along with catholic charities has created called rapid immigration response team. It requires me to attend training in immigration law and assist in deportation raids when they happen across the state of arkansas. I know im a conservative what am i doing helping illegal immigrants. The real truth is that not all people deported are illegal, and my particular problem is with all the legal us born children we deport, or worse hold indefinitely in deportation centers. There is just alot of inhumanity that if most people knew the basics of would not agree with. I do not believe illegals should be allowed to stay, but I think we need to make sure they are illegal first. Well that is all I can think of that we have been doing volunteer wise and it has been keeping us a bit more busy. As always, Love, Brianne