.Why don't they ask 1 member of each family being housed, to work at the shelter, since it is now thier home for short term....JUST A THOUGHT.
Some of those housed at the shelters here are helping out -- cleaning, helping with meals, washing clothes, etc. However, several of the shelters are filled with nursing home patients and disabled persons. Those shelter residents can't help out and they need a lot more volunteers per capita than shelters filled with able-bodied families. I know a few volunteers who are living at the shelters because they don't have gas to go back and forth. They won't be able to do that indefinitely, because some of them have young children at home.