Today we woke up and ate breakfast at our lovely home. We had lots of options to choose from after yesterday's grocery shopping. Then we headed to our volunteer site for the day. We spent the day at Tender Mercies, which is a shelter in the Over the Rhine area. This part of Cincinnati is historic and has a lot of poverty. Tender Mercies provides transitional and permanent housing for homeless people suffering from mental illness.
We watched a video that was very powerful that showed the effects of homelessness and the power that Tender Mercies has to change lives. We assisted Tender Mercies with cleaning all six of their facilities. Then we ate lunch at the house and went shopping at an outlet mall. We have several chefs on this trip who made dinner consisting of spaghetti, garlic bread, and brownies. We went to the Hunger Games to end our night.
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