Your home is more than just a house. It’s a shelter, a haven of peace, a warm bubble of happiness. Home is the place where you feel safe, the place where you can relax and be yourself, the place where you are loved. It’s no wonder that the saying insists that home is where the heart belongs. But, for some homeowners, home is not just their special place, it’s a place that is special to others too. Indeed, your home can help others to overcome the difficulties of their lives, whether it is stress, financial issues, or even family or health related. Your home does have to provide shelter only to you, but you can extend its protective roof to stop the metaphorical rain from falling onto the head of those around you too. Your home can be the light at the end of a tunnel for someone who is feels lost and confused.
Invite a friend who needs support
Declutter and donate
Do you sometimes feel a little cramped in your own home? That’s precisely what spring cleaning is about! Now is the best time to go through your home and run an in-depth decluttering process. Over the winter, it’s not uncommon to accumulate items you don’t need, such as seasonal home decor, unused lighting elements from chandeliers to lamps – they are a popular purchase when the sunlight is at its lowest in winter – and maybe that DVD player you got for Christmas but haven’t used yet. But if you can’t use them, maybe someone else can. That’s the idea behind habitathm.ca, an organization that helps the public to fight off poverty housing issues. Your donation can help change a life.
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Your furniture can help people
Make your friends and relatives feel at home
Do you have a friend who is going through a rough patch? Sometimes a change of decor can help them to focus their mind and find a way out of their issues. Or if it doesn’t, it can provide the break they need to recharge their batteries. You can choose to invite them to spend a few days with you. Make your home comfortable for your guest. You don’t need much to make it work. Creating positive feelings in the house, with bright decorative items for instance. A friendly home can help someone to find their balance again.
Offer a room to those who need help
Want to foster kittens? Welcoming a friend is one thing, how about giving shelter to a child? There are nearly 400,000 children in the foster care system in the U.S. These children need someone to look after them during a difficult time, whether they’re dealing with abusive parents or whether they can’t stay with their family for another reason. If you have a bedroom to offer and a lot of patience and attention, you could become a foster parent and change their lives. If you are not confident about your parenting skills, how about becoming a foster for paws.org? You can foster an animal that is yet too young to be adopted, an animal that needs medical attention before it can be given to adoption or even a future mother-to-be.
In conclusion, your home is more than a house. It’s a hope bringer for others.
