By Last Wednesday, a group of friends and I volunteered to serve dinner at the Drop Inn Center in Cincinnati. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the organization, it is one of the largest organizations in the city serving the homeless. As the intern at Lydia’s House, I am incredibly passionate about urban poverty, and gladly welcomed the opportunity to help in whatever way I could. Armed with previous experience at a large shelter in Chicago, I had prepared myself emotionally for the hour I would spend at the Drop Inn Center. Or so I thought. In actuality, no
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Shelter Expansion Update
Have you been by Lydia’s House recently? If not, the next time you drive by, you might have to do a double take! The construction crews have been making lots of progress the past several weeks putting up walls and connecting the two buildings, getting us just that much closer to having a completed project to provide better quality care, resources, and experiences to our guests. If you take a closer look at our backyard picture above, you may notice that our walnut tree is gone! A few weeks ago, a logging crew came in
