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It is the start of the new year for the Village. The Village has new board officers, and a new goal to plan ahead for all the new people to come. We worked hard on getting our new bathroom and showers built. The plans are done and ok'd by the City. The city wants us to pay 16,000.00 building fees to build the bathrooms at the village. Now this also includes a new office which is twice the size of our Common area now. A new kitchen which will go a long way in cooking food for others , who have nothing. This was the total for the three buildings to be built. I know this is a lot of money for homeless people to raise but, the Village has a lot of supporters that when faced with a goal , have meet that goal and then some.
The for Fathers of Dignity Village had a vision of what they expected the Village to be like. Today the Village tries to expand the vision to a more realistic look and maintain a sustainable way of living. There main goal is to be able to have there own land, and to build and expand the village to reach out to helping more of the homeless that still live on the streets, in the surrounding area. We welcome everyone that would love to help out and work with us , to join us. Our goal this spring is to raise the money to get the bathrooms up. Having worked with many of the work groups and groups of people that have just come out to see the village first hand , and the all the volunteers that came to help work around the village last year, a big Thank you to everyone. Your hard work and efforts have helped homeless people that were on the streets to have a place they can feel warm and safe. The village is there stepping stone to changing of there lives from living on the streets , to helping them return to a normal way of living. We are planing to have an Easter Bazaar like our Holiday bazaar we had last Dec 5-6th 2009. It was a hit. The village raised all most 800.00 for the two day event, to help with the bills. If you can help out, with any amount ,this would be very helpful Thanks . I had a group of kids ( about a 11 of them ) ask me one day what they could to help out. I told them to have a bake sale, car wash, or anything like that. A month later Dignity Village gets a check for $1,900.00 raised by the same group of Kids. Way to go ! They were from Texas, visiting Portland and had stopped by. It goes to show you things happen for reasons which we sometimes don't understand. Thank you everyone.
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