{"id":6851,"date":"2015-11-07T23:08:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2015-11-11T23:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T22:35:58","slug":"daily_402_-_vi_gor_vad_vi_kan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2015\/11\/07\/daily_402_-_vi_gor_vad_vi_kan\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 402 – Vi g\u00f6r vad vi kan"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI spent all of today volunteering with Vi g\u00f6r vad vi kan<\/i>, helping to sort donated clothes for refugees on Lesbos and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Introduction:
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I worked in the rough sorting area, where we opened sack after sack of donated stuff and sorted them into categories such as men, women, kids, backpacks, blankets, hygiene etc. We also ended up with amazingly large piles we labelled “charity” (with usable items that would nevertheless be of no use to refugees trekking across Europe in winter, such as neckties, sandals and strappy summer dresses) and “garbage” (with clothes that were too dirty or worn to be of any use to anybody).<\/p>\n

I wonder what people were thinking when they donated that kind of stuff. Were they too busy or too lazy to sort through their stuff before donating it? Smelly shoes, clothes covered with cat hair… Did they not think that someone would have to sort those out?<\/p>\n


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My scrum master habits kicked in almost immediately, so I sneak scrum mastered the heck out of the area immediately around me. I couldn’t help but notice that some parts of the process could be made a lot more efficient with very little effort, and without even having to tell people to do anything differently – just by moving some boxes and bags around and by doing things differently myself.<\/p>\n

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The roughly sorted things went on to a second round of finer sorting. Kids wear sorted roughly by size; winter clothes sorted out for high priority handling, etc.
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Winter is coming.
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At some point we had lunch, sitting on packing pallets and wolfing down Max hamburgers.
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I got to brush up my 20-year-old pallet jack skills.
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Packing area:
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Finished, packed boxes:
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On our way to the bus that will take us back to Stockholm:
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I worked for 10 hours, with a few brief breaks. I got a lot done, and I helped the people around me get a lot done. But I also feel like I barely made a difference. I wish I could do more. Still: we do what we can.
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