Food Bank Reflection

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This weekend, I was able to participate in a community service project that is vitally important to me, as well as to the people that are a part of this community and many others. The Food Bank of Central Louisiana has always been a part of my life, beginning when I was in elementary school. However, I have never been the one packing the boxes, but the one that hands them out to the people in need. I honestly learned a lot during my short time working at the Food Bank. I have never personally packed the boxes and it was an eye-opening experience for me. There is a lot involved with what we were doing. There were so many different things that were going in the boxes and it was sometimes hard to keep up with everything that was going on. Not …show more content…
They distribute different food items to needy families in Allen, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, Vernon, and Winn parishes. The food bank does not just distribute the food boxes that we were packing; they also help with food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, group homes, and other non-profit organizations throughout Central Louisiana. To me, this is an amazing thing. The Food Bank is said to distribute more than six million pounds of food, feeding more than 22,400 people every month. Learning this really shocked me; I did not realize that a single food bank could help so many people. My group was helping the food bank by packing boxes with different food items such as canned corn and green beans, spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, cranberry juice concentrate, Ensure meal drinks, and Special K protein drinks, just to name a few. I was amazed by how many different items could fit in such a small box. I really hope that these boxes will help the people in our community that are in need for nourishment. Just one box could possibly save a life and it really hits home with me to think that a box that I helped pack with food is going to someone in