Ten Apartments

Here is the apartment building that belongs to the Atlanta Dream Center. Inside are 10 very small apartments.  Forty seven students live here.

There is one communal kitchen in the basement.

Here are some random shots of the apartments.  There is a boy's floor and a girl's floor.  Everyone sleeps in bunk beds that they made.

It is the same as all of the old homes we work in.  No storage, no lighting.

Each apartment is very small, I am guessing about 500 square feet.  4-6 kids live in each one.  Each has a kitchen area that is the largest part of the apartment.  They have stoves but they have been unhooked and nobody is allowed to cook except in the communal kitchen in the basement.  They are allowed to microwave in their apartments.  Some apartments have refrigerators.

A lot of the house has really nice hardwood floors.

This is nothing more than a nook and two boys sleep here.  It is a little bit wider than a single bed, you can see the full size mattress stuck in there.

The house has good structure, good floors and ceilings.  It could be made a lot more comfortable and live-able.

These kids are learning to be the hands and feet of Jesus in a really hands-on way.  They spend long tiring days working and studying.  They come from a generation that believes they are entitled to everything without working for it.  But, these kids are not like that.  I watched them feed the homeless, pray with people, walk door to door in the rain to make the presence of Jesus known.