London Bag Drop

What's a better way to spend your Near Year's day than to volunteer and deliver bags to the homeless? Making a difference early on is the best way to start the new year.
This year it was my cousins turn to host the event, so she gathered the essentials and spread the word to her friends and family. About 38 bags were made and delivered to the homeless men and woman around London. The bags consisted of gloves, underwear, toothbrush, toothpaste, hats, water and other essentials, as well as lunch and coffee.
It was honestly such a humbling experience. As we gave people the bags and food, alot of them were so thankful and some even shared some of their stories with us. Some of the people returned some of the essentials back to us and said they didn't need it. For me, this was absolutely shocking to see. I would have thought they would be greedy, and take everything, but they simply said "i won't be needing or using this, so you can give it to someone who might like it."

I feel as though homeless people have such a bad reputation. Don't get me wrong, i'm sure there are people who aren't nice, and are greedy, but the ones we encountered were just so grateful that we were doing this, especially when it was about 30 degrees outside. I know if I was in their position, I would want everything and would be completely cranky.

About an hour into the bag drop, it started raining... not drizzling, but down pouring. I was miserable. I was honestly only thinking about how I was going to be home in a few hours and get to change into my pajamas. It crossed my mind, that these people on the streets couldn't do anything, but cope with what they had in the rain and cold weather. I got quite emotional thinking about it because they really have no choice, but to make the best of what they had, which wasn't much. I'm glad that my family and I were able to help them, not necessarily give them money, but provide them with the basics necessities.