Greetings future Mullens Volunteers!
Here’s the update for week 1:
We cannot wait for you to arrive! We’ve been having a wonderful week of getting to know the families, the communities and our wonderful week 1 volunteers. We’re even enjoying those West Virginia country roads, as crazy as it sounds. Prepare yourselves for the hills and switchbacks, as well as lots and lots of gnats (can you say bug spray?)
In a few days or weeks, you’ll be arriving at Mullens Middle School searching for projects. At the moment, we are compiling more projects for future weeks to work on. As of right now, we have 8 beautiful projects that promise us lots of hard work and a wonderful ASP experience. Hopefully this will help you figure out what to bring for each project, and I’ll try to keep you updated as to what’s happening with the new projects we’re acquiring.
Without further ado, here are some brief descriptions of our projects:
Project 1
Code Name: Superman
Family Situation: An elderly woman living alone, although she is surrounded by family close by.
Last week:They replaced her kitchen floor, with OSB and luaun.
This week: Finishing the tile for her kitchen!
Future: At the moment we have no future projects planned.
Project 2 & 3
Code Name: Nacho Cheese/Charlies Angels
Family Situation: Mother and Father living with their 2 sons and their 16 year old daughter.
Last week: Sided their back addition and built them a front porch.
This week: Finishing porch, beginning to fix bathroom floor. Also digging drainage
ditch.
Future: siding on front of home.
Project 4
Code Name: Bar of Soap
Family Situation: A mother living with her son and daughter.
Last Week: Built a back porch and fixed her kitchen floor.
This week: Putting in luaun and tile.
Future: Front porch? Maybe?
Project 5
Code Name: Paparazzi
Situation: Husband, wife and 3 kids. Both parents are unemployed.
Last week: Removed entire bathroom.
This week: Fix continuous foundation underneath the bathroom, begin bathroom repairs.
Future: whole new bathroom!
Project 6
Code Name: Counting Crows
Situation: Single woman living with 45 year old son.
Last week: This is a brand new project!
This week: cleaning walls from mold, sure up walls and roof, fix mold in walls and ceiling in back bedroom.
Future: Possibly paint and scrape windows.
Project 7
Code Name: Cellular Phone
Situation: Grandmother living with 4 year old grandson. She is unemployed.
Last week: Built a front porch.
This week: Attaching porch to house, building stairs, putting on handrails.
Future projects: Fixing floors, checking the foundations and if all is well, placing underpinning.
Project 8
Code Name: Alphabet Soup
Situation: Elderly woman, lives with dog.
Last week: Underpinning!
This week: More underpinning and fixing some foundations.
Future: Porches, replace band joists, possibly fixing bathroom floor.
Hopefully this will help you out in preparing for your fun week with us!
-Jamielee (Mullens Volunteer Coordinator)
