On Saturday October 25th, I attended Stockton’s Make a Difference Day. Make a Difference Day happens once a semester and is run by the Office of Service Learning. There were several volunteer opportunities to choose from that day. I decided to volunteer at the Community Food Bank to help pack boxes of food to give to those in need.
When we got to the Food Bank, the lady who was in charge for the day greeted us. The first thing she had us do was stuff envelopes with the Food Bank’s newsletters. It was not a hard task but it was a bit tedious. The group I was with decided to divide up the work assembly line style. One half of the group would put a flier in the newsletter and fold it up. The other group would then seal the newsletters shut. I was a part of the first group until the sealing group started to slow down and I offered to help them out. We folded and sealed newsletters for about ninety minutes until the lady came back and told us we could pack boxes now.
The group and I went into the back of the building where the warehouse was. In there were hundreds of cans and boxes full of food. The people who were leading the Warehouse Shift led us to some tables and told us what to do. They said that each person would be in charge of putting one food item in the box as the box moves down the table. I was in charge of putting the canned green beans in the box. By the end of the shift we packed several hundred boxes and we all had to go back to the campus. I enjoyed working at the Food Bank because I liked the fact that I was helping people receive a good holiday dinner.