Hoffman School By Jocie Little

Today was another eventful day for Lutheran HANDS and for my work group, group 11.  This week we are working with Hands On New Orleans, a volunteer group that is centered in New Orleans.

 Today we went to Hoffman Charter School, a school for children 6 weeks old to 4 years old. These children come from families who make less than $20,000 per year. Hoffman started with 8 classrooms, and this year added 8 more in a separate building. While we were there, the new building wasn't finished, but will be done for when the kiddos get there in August.

Our main task today was to move all of the furniture from the cafeteria to the new classrooms in the separate building.  The whole room was packed with furniture that all had to be separated and moved into each room. Then we had to hoist each piece up to the building which was elevated about 4 feet. For the first hour we had a ramp, but then we had an incident. Several strong men and women were walking up the ramp with a heavy cabinet when the ramp slipped off the foundation it was attached to with all of the people on it. Thankfully, no one was hurt and the people holding the cabinet held on and still got it into the building. Even with that bump in the road, we still managed to move all of the pieces into their places an hour early.

I feel so lucky by going to Hoffman and impacting all of the students I won't even meet. I am so excited for the rest of my week and all of the rest of the work!