Super-hero Organization Spotlight!!

I love super heroes so much!! And I love the super heroes working all around the world to beneficially impact the lives of others. Today's post is all about three SUPER HERO ORGANIZATIONS!!!! The spotlight is on them:

• South Bend Center for the Homeless - For 23 years, this phenomenal Center for the Homeless has served the Michiana areas homeless population with wrap-around care providing an array of programs and services. As a volunteer from 1999-2002, I was welcomed into the community with open arms and shared in the strength that was developed within the community structure. The community nurtured the space for individual growth. This organization is full of SUPER-HEROES!!!
• Jamaicans for Justice - Super Heroine Dr. Carolyn Gomes founded JFJ with others after gas riots and too many years of human rights violations pushed her to her limit in 1999.  They inspire me because they defend human rights for everyone, that no matter what status one lives we all deserve the same rights. "It is in that space of power imbalance and individual vulnerability that most human rights non-governmental organizations (NGO) operate, in an attempt to even the balance and provide protection for society’s vulnerable/against the all-powerful state mechanism." -JFJ website Defense of Human Rights: Clarifying Misconceptions
• St. Mungo's - With close to 70,000 people classified as homeless in London, their wrap-around services offered all over the city are crucial in mitigating the impact of homelessness for hundreds of people every year. SUPER HEROES!!!! When I volunteered at St. Mungo's, I gardened with a rock-star horticulturalist, Angie Moffat, who coordinated a volunteer staff from the organization's facilities and other's from around the neighborhood. The goal was to beautify public spaces in collaboration with those who live in those same spaces.

I'm so proud of all of these organizations and I hope they continue to do their wonderful work in their communities!! Their hard work is a blessing for me and for many more.  Its hard to know what kind of astronomical feats many of these same super heroes could be capable of, if we lived in a world where our declaration of human rights universally guaranteed equality for all.  They'd be able to solve all different types of problems. I like to think we'd be teleporting by now.