Youth join forces to fight homelessness
For the Saint James' Episcopal Church senior high school youth group The Road Home project, which donates money annually to Salt Lake City's The Road Home homeless shelter, began merely as a way to increase church attendance.
Two years later, the group has become volunteer fundraisers and spokespersons for The Road Home via the creation of a youth organization, Youth for Youth, which cuts out bureaucracy and replaces it with motivated teenagers on a mission to eradicate homelessness.
Recently while speaking to a youth group, Ashton Palmer, a member of Youth for Youth, recalled the roots of her commitment to help the Road Home.
While serving a meal at the shelter, Palmer encountered a grateful man who screamed after her, "God bless you! We're so appreciative.
God bless you! God bless!" as tears formed in his eyes.
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