For my community service, I volunteered for a program called “Feed My Starving Children”. It is a program to help starving children by packing up foods for them and send to poor areas to save their life. It was a raining day. the weather didn’t make me feel depressed, because I was going to help out many children. Because of subway delays, we were late so when we arrived at there, many volunteers already started the packing. We quickly moved to our area and carefully listened to the instructions. Before we have started, we were asked to wear plastic caps and gloves to prevent hair or nails from mixing with the food. We need to fill out each pack with one spoon of dried vegetables, one spoon of corn flour (I guess), and one cup of rice and the weight should be between 380 to 400 gram. The process took six people to do: one for rice filling, one for vegetable filling, one for corn filling, one for bag holding, one for weighing, and one for sealing up the pack.
We felt excited about it and thought it will be pretty easy. I was responsible for weighing the pack. However, we started the work and found that it was not that easy: people who were doing the filling couldn’t accurately control the amount of the food; the bag sometimes didn’t fit to the bottom of the funnel; and weighed packs sometimes spilled out on the table. Gradually, we found a pattern and we were getting smooth and we came out to be pretty efficient. Another person put the completed packs into a box and once the box was full, all of us cried out some words to notice the staffs that we were done with one box. We continued this work for about two hours. When the staffs called times up, we looked at out outcome and noticed that with a limit amount of time, we already have packed eight boxes. As a whole, in that afternoon there were almost two hundred boxes were packed and were ready to be sent. I appreciate this meaningful experience because it helped many starving children and gave them hope in life.
