Blog #3 Relationship Between Citizens and My CP

          The relationship between citizens and my CP is very close. Because they are a nonprofit, they rely heavily on volunteers. This allows for a fairly close relationship between the volunteers and the people that live at the shelter. One example of a close relationship would be when it comes to food. Because the shelter does not have any cooking facilities, they rely heavily on volunteer groups to bring and serve food three times a week. The shelter also allows its volunteers to interact with the citizens on an educational level. This is because the shelter offers courses that teach them hot to save money, life-skills workshops, Internet access as well as medical care when needed. Because of these reasons, we can see how there is a caring and educational relationship between the CP and the volunteers.

            This also allows us to see how citizen-participation affects the CP. As stated, because there are no cooking facilities at the shelter, they rely heavily on outside sources for food. If there is no citizen participation, it would drastically impact the shelter in a negative way. This is because they would not have any means of coming up with the meals for the people residing in the shelter. Another way that no participation would negatively affect the shelter is that there would be no one to help with the services they offer. In all, no participation could potentially mean that the shelter would come to an end. We can see that citizen participation is vital for the shelter to remain operational.