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Where: Gateway Apartments, 4712 Gaston Avenue Dallas, TX 75246
When: Saturday, April 17th 1-3PM
What: April Community Service Opportunity
We are hosting a Kids’ Activity Day from 1-3pm. Activities will include: face painting, games, prizes, balloons, etc. Volunteers will be running the activities and interacting with kids and parents.
One Body DFW Contact: Ellen Vuong, member of Vietnamese Baptist Church of Garland
A few weeks ago, I met with Shama Shams, the Community Relations Manager for Family Gateway. Family Gateway is a social service organization that helps homeless families transition into permanent housing. Family Gateway has two locations: a center in downtown Dallas and “Gateway Apartments” on Gaston Avenue. The residents at Family Gateway can call the apartments “home” for a period up to 1 year, and everyone pays rent on a scale based on their earnings. As part of the program, the residents receive career counseling and must abide by rules regarding drug use, curfew, and chores.
I asked Shama to identify Family Gateway’s greatest need and how our group could help. She asked if our group could help with a landscaping project to help make the apartment complex feel more like a home and “less like an institution.” So, that’s what we’re doing! In JUNE.
On April 17th, we are going to host a Kids’ Activity Day from 1-3pm. Instead of just stopping by and leaving flowers, I figured it’d be more worthwhile to get to know the tenants who call Family Gateway, “home.” I invite you to stop by to have some fun with the kids and parents while familiarizing yourself with the location and thinking of some landscaping ideas.
April 16th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Would love to come and lend a helping hand