In the city of Buffalo, St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy does so many incredible things for those with the least in the area. They are completely run by volunteers and don’t even accept government money. Everything they do is because the kindness and generosity of others. They run a school for the kids at the shelter, they serve home-cooked meals for people, and during Christmas they makes sure that the families get a proper Christmas. This is what I did when I went my school to St. Luke’s.
This year they supplied boxes of gifts to over 600 families. The volunteer work was done in two phases: loading up the truck from where the gifts were and unloading the boxes into St. Luke’s where they would be organized and they given out to the families on Christmas. I was on the team that worked to unload the trucks and organize the boxes of presents into their different rooms. In total there were over 100 people from all over coming in to help move all of the gifts.
It was so incredible to me how well their system worked. People were split into two lines and they were staggered across from someone so you didn’t have to turn to far and hurt your back with all of the boxes they had coming through. Everyone passed the boxes down and once they were in the room they were stacked in rows. I couldn’t believe that we had four different rooms filled with gifts for families and more so that these boxes of gifts had items that were donated from countless individuals.
What I was able to help with was one of so many things they do to help people, you can see more of what they do on their website.
