Written By: Vince Baarson
Operation Project Hope, a beautification of Hooper Elementary in South Central, CA commenced on June 4th, 2011.
Project Hope’s mission for the Hooper Elementary project was to boost student and teacher moral by way of campus beautification and personal growth seminar. Affirmations, “I am responsible”, “I am worthy”, “I am confidant”, and more were painted on the interior walls of the school by the volunteers. The campus was cleaned and landscaped, the kitchen sanitized and repainted, and the schools emergency water supply replenished. More than three hundred volunteers, students and their families, completed all of this and more in eight hours time.
Greg Baarson, logistics coordinator exclaims, “We really wanted to include the families in this project.”
Hooper Elementary is located in South Central Los Angeles. One hundred percent of the students qualify for the state’s lunch program, the families’ average annual income is fifteen-thousand-dollars, and thirty-three of the families are homeless.
Martha Shickley, coordinator of the clothing and food drive explains, “It’s a pretty daunting world right now and it makes people feel good that they can do something that will make a difference in a community and this project WILL make a difference.”
The hope of this project is it will benefit the community from the standpoint of involving the parents and students of the school will see there are people in Los Angeles who care about them. It will give them a sense of pride and inspire them to continue the rejuvenating of their community. Also by educating the families on the health and supplemental services that are available for them such as the food bank and health care options.
Many of Hooper’s teachers received tickets to PSI Seminars Basic class to practice personal growth and to realize unity of the staff. PSI’s philosophy is “World peace one mind at a time.” It is a growing movement of like-minded individuals who unconditionally improve the lives of all people.
Greg states, “This project is really great because it is a demonstration of how people, like minded people, can come together and through collective efforts do some good. With out any preconditions.
One hundred thirty gallons of paint and sealer were donated in kind by many hardware stores, hundreds of plants by the green house at Sylmar High School, and tools lent by the Los Angeles Unified School District. This along with hundreds of volunteers transformed Hooper Elementary, which has only ONE full-time janitor to clean up after twelve hundred students.
Progress
Food and an overwhelming amount of clothing flooded in that day. Many asked to get involved wrote checks, versus volunteering their time, to the cause in which these families will see one hundred percent of the donated funds. Hooper elementary students arrived to an atmosphere of inspiration and beauty on Monday morning.
Operation project hope is just one of many events occurring throughout the world organized by PSI Seminar graduates.
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