People slowly trickled into the parking lot at RAFT. Resource Area for Teachers or RAFT in short, is a great place to be. For the creative at heart, it is manna from heaven. For the environmentally conscious folks, it is a place that has proven that excess office/corporate inventory need not end up in a land-fill. For teachers, more importantly, it is place where they can network, shop for their classrooms while enhancing their teaching skills using low-cost science and math kits for their students.
<--Look at our lovely young women with happy smiles and dirty hands!
--> And here you see veteran volunteer Howard sorting through paper. He is an active participant in HOBA's events.
HOBA volunteers worked together with another local non-profit group to sift through 12 pallets of office material. We sorted paper, office supplies and helped pack them for their big move to Sunnyvale.
See part of our big group here.
Sometimes it is hard to lay a value on this kind of effort. Why would a group of 22 people come to a nondescript place on a lovely Saturday morning while the world could have otherwise beckoned them with thousand other things?
It is easy to find that answer if you pause and ask the right question. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi once said: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
