Phoebe was introduced to the shelter by her dancer friend, Andrew, who also volunteers.
She has been with us for six months and is proud to newly have become a key worker and looks forward to hopefully being a useful ally to the guests. She also really enjoys working with the other volunteers, who she finds are a very special group of no-nonsense, diverse people. She is in awe of Sheila and Louis, who set up and run the shelter – and wishes that the world was full of more people who had their energy and balls. She is proud (and a bit surprised, never liking doing her own) to be a demon bed-maker, and lives in fear of being called up for cooking duty. She salutes all the chefs who each night conjure up, from what can be eclectic ingredients, a meal that is happily wolfed down by guests and volunteers together.
She feels absolutely privileged to be a part of the shelter community which does vital work and where at any one time – and often all at the same time – there can be a noisy pool game, intense philosophy class, industrial macaroni cheese production, important life-changing conversations and honky-tonk piano playing.