Food, phone help homeless

Each week the Key Club of Issaquah High School, Washington, heads into downtown Seattle to serve food and possibly reunite families.

Teaming up with others in the community, members satisfy immediate needs by handing out hot dogs, fruit, and drinks to runaways and homeless persons. They also attempt to satisfy something not quite so obvious by encouraging them to call their families on cell phones provided by the organization Momma’s Hands.

Often this service reunites people with their families and gets them off the streets.

This weekly opportunity is very popular with the club because members say they enjoy interacting with the people who benefit from their voluntarism.

“You can genuinely see the appreciation on the homeless citizen’s faces when they get a hot meal and the chance to talk to a loved one,” one Key Clubber says.