A Year of Volunteering & Raising Awareness - 2023-2024 - All Hands and Hearts - EarthThreads Project
In 2023, I spent two months volunteering for the All Hands and Hearts Natural Disaster Relief Team, in Fort Myers, Florida, and in Cabot, Vermont, and a few weeks in Nepal's Earthquake Disaster Relief Program. (Worksite in Cabot, Vermont) It was like living in an action movie. All of the volunteers would meet in the morning, with the sun rising, and have their coffee and breakfast, and check their phones (if they were the seasoned volunteers) for weather reports, natural disaster reports, and other national survey sites. It was like being a part of a secret heroes association. (Selfie of me in front of the waterfall at the wedding venue we helped clear their barn in Vermont) We visit all kinds of places, as volunteers, always in teams set up by our staff. After ur morning meetings, we would get the gears needed for that team's assignment, whetehr it was Mucking and Gutting, or Scrubbing and Vacuuming for the Sanitation Crew, we were preparing homes for rebuild after the floodi...