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Project Dignity

serving the homeless with dignity, humility & love

Simple is Better

Keep it simple—it’s better. Time and again when playing games with the children, it is hammered home to me that it’s not how much the game costs that matters, but how much enjoyment it brings.

I comb retail stores, teacher’s supply stores and of course amazon.com for game ideas. There is no lack of games available. The hard part is weeding out the million possibilities to a few purchases. I’ve finally learned the hard way and the expensive way that children don’t care about how much a game costs, or, how many brightly colored pieces it has.

This is important for you too. The more pieces there are the more you can lose. Don’t forget—you’re portable. You need to transport and keep track of all those pieces. The boxes the games come in are going to take a beating by being constantly transported and eventually the box won’t hold the pieces any longer. You need a game that can eventually be contained in zippered baggies and plastic containers. You also don’t want a game that is ruined if you lose one piece.

The children want something without a lot of complicated rules, not too many pieces to deal with and most importantly, a fast paced game. It’s important to have a fast paced game that ends relatively quickly. Rest assured, once you start having fun everyone else is going to want to play and you don’t want to disappoint them by having them wait half an hour to get into the next game.

Yesterday I reached into our big purple rubberized container for a game. The container you keep all the games in is the one thing you don’t want to go cheap on. It’s going to spend a lot of time bouncing around in the back of your car and on motel parking lot surfaces. Spend a little more and you’ll only have to buy it once. I came up with a game that cost me $5 at a big box store. Guess what we played for the next hour and a half?

The children loved it. The adults even joined in. It was the kind of game anyone of any age could play and still find it challenging. There were no frowns and the only cries of “No Fair!” came from the adults, who weren’t as fast as the little ones! Best of all, when it was time to pack everything up, the game fit into a little round metal tin, four inches by two.

The children have already requested that we start with this game next time. It’s going to be popular for a long, long time. Price of the game, $5.00. Endless laughter and enjoyment……priceless.

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July 14, 2014 /// Filed Under: Practical Matters, Working with Children /// Tagged With: children, practical

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A tribute to our Founder

In 1986 doctors told Linda Dunlap she had 6 months to live and she told them the Lord knew more about that than they did. She said He had a lot more work for her to do. She proved herself and God right by living another 22 ministry-packed years.

Linda went into the motels singlehandedly with nothing more than her backpack and a few medical supplies. She won the confidence of people who had never had anyone care about them or help them before. Her belief and vision that one person can make a difference grew into 10,000 people being helped annually by Project Dignity.

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What We Do

While we don’t feel anyone can ever fully understand the motel situation, we believe we understand it better than most. To our knowledge we are the only local organization who is focusing their services solely on the homeless population living in residential motels and we’ve been doing it since 1996.

It’s a long haul from homelessness to home, so our programs “wraparound” the challenges. Our first objective is to ease the burdens of daily living for our clients by assisting with necessities most of us take for granted–food, clothing and hygiene items.

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Got a question? Please feel free to contact us. We’d love to hear from you!

Call us:  714-534-4271

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Project Dignity
12913 Harbor Blvd., Ste. Q3, #253
Garden Grove, CA 92840

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