NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
A group of high school students from Ensworth weren't in class on Friday but still learned a valuable lesson in volunteering.
The students spent their day cleaning, moving furniture and decorating a west Nashville apartment for Mending Hearts.
"Mending Hearts is a non-profit organization for women who are homeless or indigent due to a background of addiction," Executive Director Trina Frierson explained. "To see these youth come and give back to homeless people in need, it is amazing. This thing is bigger than Mending Hearts."
Ensworth senior Maya White said, "We are helping redesign a home for three women. We are also doing a living room and an office for them."
White and the rest of the students were volunteering with Project Redesign, whose mission statement is "changing lives one space at a time."
Project Redesign uses donated furnishing to help women who are trying to make their lives better.
"We go in and redesign a room or space in their house, or sometimes more than one, as a way to pat them on the back," said Karen Moore, one of Project Redesign's co-founders.
The students put in a lot of hard work, but told Nashville's News 2 it was worth it to make a difference in someone's life.
"It is the best feeling to know that you just made someone happy because you gave them something that we already had and they didn't. It just makes it worthwhile," Rejean Rouse said.
Mending Hearts will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Albion Street apartment at 4 p.m. Sunday, February 12.
