Yesterday my fiancee Val and I woke up at 6 in the morning and headed to Compton in order to help volunteer with a group named, “The Compton Initiative.“ They are a group of 1,000-2,000 people that meet several times a year in order to work together to clean up the city of Compton.
I had no idea what to expect and I was really impressed when we arrived. There were tons of people helping to park the cars that were arriving, and we were checked in and fed breakfast within 20 minutes. Next we found a sub group to join and off we went to paint Whaley Middle School. So many people came together from so many walks of life. Within 3 and a half hours the entire middle school was painted. It was so amazing to see so many volunteers come together and contribute to something so much bigger than themselves. I can’t wait to volunteer for their next project. I’m sure it’ll just as much fun as this one.
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- Organizing into sub-groups early in the morning.
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- Val, reloading her paint brush.
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- This was our wall to paint. It went so fast!
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- Paint.
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- More Paint :)
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- Thought this wall looked good.
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- Painters everywhere!
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- Toward the end of the day the pro’s came in to pick up what we missed :)
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- At a certain point I was in charge of reloading the paint distribution stations! Pretty important stuff.
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- Lunch!
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- Dad & Val running the distro station.
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- Teamwork.
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- Whole building painted in like 15 mins! haha.
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- Lunch – Hot dogs, chips & a soda… mmm.
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- Me, Val, Gwen & Dad
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- Cold soda’s on a hot day… mmm.
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- Dad, Gwen & Flow
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- Gwen & Flow
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- Dad & Gwen
