Community Service at Good Mojo
Last Tuesday Rotarians gathered at the Good Mojo shop as a community service project. We sorted clothes, tidied and straightened the toy and book shelves, and plucked outdated items from the clothing racks. This gave us an opportunity to get to know each other better while being helpful. Rotarian Marty Raiss summed up the volunteer activity by saying: “I really like doing this.”
Profits from Good Mojo benefit the families of ForKids, which was established in 1998 in Ocean View to provide housing for the homeless families. Over the years, the mission of ForKids has focused on homeless children and their families and expanded services to "break the cycle of homelessness." It does that by providing intermediate housig for homeless families and also supportive services for those families, including after-school tutoring and meals for children. Today, ForKids has five housing programs in Norfolk and one in Suffolk which provides housing for 39 families.
In addition to the families in the housing program, there are an additional 45 families for whom ForKids provides non-residential services, including services in schools.