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Our day at Coats for Kids in Sacramento in photos and video
 
Yesterday Jon and I had a volunteer opportunity that I wrote a bit about last night.  We helped the Sacramento Salvation Army at coat distribution day for the Coats for Kids event at Cal Expo.  For more information about the distribution, see my earlier post.
Today I took the video snippets I took during breaks in the action and edited them together to make a video to share with you.
I have to say that I am so impressed with the way the Salvation Army organizes these events.  They run with such smoothness and with a system designed not to overwhelm either the volunteers or the clients who come to be served. 
For days before the event, volunteers sorted the coats, eliminating any that were soiled, stained, or damaged in any way, then hanging the nice ones on racks by size and whether they were for boys or girls, men or women.  So the day of distribution there were dozens of full racks of great coats and jackets.
The way the coats event progressed was for the clients to check in at a different building and get tickets for the number of coats for which they qualify.  They ... more

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