CIT Volunteer Day

The company I work for, The CIT Group, encourages employees to volunteer throughout the year. They'll even pay us to volunteer for a day. So four of my co-workers and I spent today at God's Pit Crew. This organization does great work going on a moment's notice to help people cope with disasters throughout the southeastern US. They went to Gulfport MS after Katrina and to lots of other stricken areas. They do whatever is needed from rebuilding homes to cleaning and repairing buildings to handing out emergency supplies. Here's their website: http://www.thegodspitcrew.org/site/index.php.

Today, we sorted and boxed all kinds of things that have been donated to GPC so they can get the items out to people who need them. Everything from bandaids, to toothpaste, to soap, to baby products, etc etc etc. We also cleaned and organized one of their storage rooms. I found a new calling as a "labelologist" which is one who writes words in big letters on the side of a box (like "BandAids" and "HairCare") - just call me if you have boxes to be labeled - I'm REALLY good at it! Randy (our keeper) was pleased with us and said we'd gotten a lot more accomplished than he had thought we would. We worked hard and had a great time - we felt useful and helpful.

(L-R) Jennifer - Lisa - Jason - Debbie - Marsha

See -- I even needed to label the photo...