By Lisa Marshall | Communications Manager
Fall has arrived here at Raphael House. The leaves are turning, the kids have gone back to school and it seems impossibly quiet in the shelter during the day. In the evenings, volunteers arrive for Homework Club, and soon we'll be picking up a load of pumpkins from the farm and celebrating the changing season with our annual Harvest Festival.
In every season, we try to make Raphael House seem as much like a home as possible. So in the cooler months, we enter to a shelter redolent with the scents of apples, cinnamon and baking. We encourage kids to explore the world around them by researching fallen leaves. We invite residents to decorate their shelter home for the season. And at the end of October, all the kids living in our shelter go trick-or-treating door to door right inside Raphael House. It's one of my favorite times of year.
But as always, these wonderful things also serve as a reminder of what these families have left behind. They haven't just left their homes - in many cases they've also left all their belongings. Their photo albums. Their school supplies. Last year's Halloween costume. At Raphael House we do what we can to fill all those needs as we work toward realizing a world in which every family is safe in their own home.
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