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At least 10 people have benefited from the program through NOAH, according to George Kinsler, NOAH’s Director of Housing Residential Services. Participants must be 55 or older and meet minimum income requirements. They are referred to NOAH for positions such as file clerk, maintenance laborer and child car attendant. They can work a certain number of hours for the agency for up to six months, after which they should be acclimated to finding full time employment.

“They were happy to be working with NOAH,” Kinsler said of the participants referred to the agency. “We give them all of the training we can and then, hopefully, they can find fulltime employment. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to offer anyone a full time job at the end of their program, but we’re working and hoping to be able to do that in the future.”

It is another extension of holistic approach to building the Glades communities. Housing is NOAH’s business, but human development is its goal. That is part of the organization’s mission statement that Edna O. McClendon, the organization’s board leader likes to keep reminding people. When others take notice by acknowledging NOAH’s contributions, it makes the effort all the more worthwhile, McClendon said.

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