hey everybody so today's that he was
gonna be a little bit different and
that's because I've had a lot of
different influences in my life recently
yesterday I did have a hard day with
hannah hart and if any of you haven't
checked out her organization that she's
kind of created around giving back you
must but it just reminded me that we're
coming into the holidays and it's
important to give back to people around
us and i also watch the video of Ingrid
Nelson's about cleaning out your closet
and it really got me thinking that there
are a lot of things that I don't use a
lot of clothing that I don't wear and I
could give that to a women's shelter to
help people who don't have access to
purchase clothing and so I got my
friends together had them gather up all
their things they're not using and we're
going to give back
stick with hey chica Hayley dating so
much for donating all of your stuff or
welcome
next week the post office I might Lisa
so I just stopped off at rocios house
and picked up all of her amazing goodies
and things to donate and now i'm off to
liz's the food
jus
just what drive through it
just can't wait to get on road
if one doesn't mean
I've come to take all of your stuff Oh
kids and kitchell's dog like perfect
well the things or whatever you can use
yeah to donate perfect yeah there's a
couple things in there from James but oh
that's fine you feel I'm sure they're
boys yeah exactly cool then it's a
little bit heavy though because I said
on one box that's fine so we put in the
backseat call the countess bull roast
leg of their but this is how I get my
exercise that's a good hauling do it all
right so I am off to make the delivery
to drop off all of the goods that we
have received and we're gonna go meet
with Kate at the opcc to tell us a
little bit about what they do and from
the things we've collected what could
they most use
thanks Rocio you like sweat pants sweat
shirt that they needed them
there's even forces in that one so if
somebody going for a job we can put all
their stuff in their purse
my name is Kate Peters and the
development director at OTC I encourage
all of you find local community sponsor
things where they help out people where
you are because oftentimes as people our
own backyards that we don't pay
attention to or we don't realize need as
much help as they do and you have a
really cool organization opcc is a
housing and its social services
organization providing services in the
area of mental health physical health of
domestic violence so I would encourage
all of you to find different facilities
different programs that you can get
behind because I did a lot of research
to come upon opcc and if you live in the
west LA area I was talking to Kate I
would encourage you all to go through
all of your clothing I know they need
jackets and sweatshirts and warm clothes
right now because we're in the winter
but summer is a really slow time for
donations so I would encourage you to
think about it in the summertime and
even give your jackets them because
they're still going to need those in the
winter and you won't be using them and
you'll get new ones the next time so
they're the drop-in center that we have
is called the access center and that's a
little bit closer to the ocean here but
that's a place where people come as
their first point of entry to get to
understand what services are available
at OPCC but then also to have immediate
needs met so getting something to eat
I've seen the doctor take a shower I we
have laundry services that are available
at no charge and that's where these
clothing donations are going to go
because we see a really high volume of
people coming through that site and
those are the people that need a new
shirt and new pair of pants because
they're going somewhere they're going to
look at an apartment perhaps they're
going to have a meeting and they need to
look presentable and they do literally
have just the clothes on their back to
wear so having a new pair of pants a
shirt that makes them feel good about
themselves and that they look good yeah
it really changes how somebody feels
about themselves and seems like a little
thing that we can do but yeah but it
means a lot absolutely