Nu2u Community Service

During my time in The Senior Capstone class at Saline High School I have been completing my community service hours at a second hand retail store called Nu2u. At Nu2u people donate cloths and objects that they have no need of anymore and we take those donations and price them to sell again. Nu2u is also a non-profit organization where all profits are donated to the local schools in the area. In their first few years open Nu2u has collected over 35,000 dollars and had given it back to the schools. For the Senior Capstone class we are required to gain 60 hours of community service until the end of the school year. So far I have worked 10 hours at Nu2u and 11 hours working on the Haiti promotional video that I made for the class for a total of 21 hours of community service out of 60 hours.The pictures below show me working mostly in the back room at Nu2u. In the backroom its here that we collect all the bags of donations and then we sort through the bags for the goods that are of better quality and then we sort those goods based on what they are (books, toys, clothes, electronics, etc.) by putting them on the back shelves. From the back shelves they are priced and then put out on display for customers to buy at low prices. Don't worry though, for what we don't put on our shelves we recycle for 15 cents a pound. So all those unusable articles of clothing are recycled to make new clothing. We put all the bags that are for recycling in a small black trailer outside of the store, every week a man takes the bags for us. Recently we are getting ready for the Christmas season. We have received numerous miscellaneous donations of Christmas things that seem to fly off the shelves. We have also been putting up lights, trees, ornaments, and other things that are all up for sale. And that's how Nu2u functions and works as a nonprofit organization.

(The front of Nu2u, where all the magic happens!)

(We're getting ready for the Christmas season. I proudly helped put those lights on that tree up front.)

 (Welcome to the back room! This is where I spend most of my time at Nu2u. This is where all the donations are sorted and put on the huge back shelves to be priced. As you can see there's really only enough room for about one person walking back there.)

(This is the black trailer where we take all the recyclable bags full of clothing and books that we leave for pick up. As you can see it fills up pretty quickly.)