Amos House- EB

Working at Amos House was a really wonderful experience. My two first days consisted of doing some minor household chores at the Mother-Child Reunification House, an organization run by the Amos House for homeless, substance abusing and/or battered mothers looking to turn their lives around by staying in this house, find jobs, and ultimately be able to reunite with their child(ren). The next day I worked in the Development Office where I made a spreadsheet listing regional and nationwide conferences on homelessness, addiction/mental disorders, and housing centers. By doing this Amos House will be able to branch out and talk with other soup kitchens and social service organizations in order to get their name out and learn more on how to help their community. The rest of my days at Amos House I worked organizing a clothing project and planting flowers around the outside of the soup kitchen and neighboring houses run by Amos House. Another amazing feature of Amos House is their Friendship Cafe, a restaurant run by Amos House that employs some of the women from the Mother-Child house and from the Job Developing center in Amos. I ate there at least three times during my service project and met a woman who is also living at the Mother-Child center. Along with this woman I formed bonds with the husband and wife team who run the soup kitchen at Amos House and two of staff that are housed and work there. Amos House is truly a warm and friendly place to be with a nurturing and safe environment where all are welcome. I really enjoyed working there and would recommend it to everyone.