I have worked with the Ronald McDonald association intermittently for the last 8 to 9 years across many states and wanted to tap back in to my own community now that I am around one locally. It is a local medical housing facility that houses families, youth and adults who are receiving medical care at Kootenai hospital. Oftentimes times when these patients are here for oncology, rehabilitation, and therapy treatments they are displaced from their own homes and communities ad they can be located in rural parts of the state or pacific northwest. These facilities provide an often low or no cost option for them to receive quality care, and a clean, safe, place to stay locally. These facilities are usually run by volunteers and donation based.

From Monday through Thursday I trained with the front desk duties as well as the house and grounds upkeeping. I learned to coordinate donation drop offs, the community pantry and linens upkeep. Taking the rooms apart, and remaking the beds as well as laundering the linens, shower curtains, and organizing supply rooms. I also spent a good amount of time working with local businesses and restaurants in coordinating drop offs of pop tabs, and item donations, and am working to develop partnerships with ongoing donations to improve funding and item inventory for the North Idaho chapter.

- Danny Foxx