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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

We were sent this amazing quote by Dorothy Day from the Daily Dig, a group which posts daily quotes about faith and justice.  It was too perfect not to share!

Daylight Saving’s has always confused me. Especially the whole “fall backward, spring forward” mnemonic device. Speaking as someone who has experienced her fair share of falling forward, particularly when roller or ice skating, I constantly mix up the sayings, which results in an overly obsessive checking and re-checking of the time to make sure that I’m not late, or later, to my appointments.   However this year, Daylight Saving’s reminded us at Lydia’s House to look forward at the upcoming months–officially moving our office to the actual Lydia’s House (hurrah!), our renovation calendar, and  preparing for our new guests. With this in

November e-Newsletter 2013

The usual suspects   This week, we’d like to extend a very special “thank you” to our regular volunteers at Lydia’s House–the ones who are consistently working, weekend after weekend, to help renovate the house and transform it into a home where women and children can heal and start afresh. These volunteers braved the heat (and the vast piles of junk) in the summer, and now are braving the cold (and drywall) of the winter, yet they always have smiles on their faces and are eager to help however they can.  They make the long work day seem like minutes,