UCLA Students Help Repair Homeless Shelter
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As tropical storm Nora sprinkled the Southland with what may be a taste of the coming El Nino winter, 50 graduate business students from UCLA helped provide the homeless with a warm retreat from the elements.
The students spent Thursday helping repair and paint a homeless shelter. “The idea of today is to give the first-year students a taste of community service activities,” said Jay Hartman, one of the student coordinators.
House of the Redeemed, a shelter at 1301 Willowbrook Ave. that specializes in assisting women and children, is being refurbished and will have about 50 beds when it reopens, said founder Carrie Caldwell. Spattered with pink paint, dozens of students painted the hallways with rollers as others stuffed toiletry bags.
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