First, I was amazing that our class project group made the efforts to come here to volunteer just because we were going to write a paper about this organization. I like how people try everything they can to accomplish something, which is a spirit I have not seen much in China.
Second, the volunteer experience was amazingly easy, fun, and full of love.
Now let's move to the volunteer part. I might have too much to talk about it.
This packing event happened at at a local church in Mesa, Love of Christ Lutheran Church. Surprisingly, people coming to volunteer varied from middle school students to retired couples.
After we checked in, everyone get a headgear to prevent our hair from dropping off. No necklace and bracelet is allowed during packing food. After everyone set up, we attended the orientation.
See how cute everyone look in the headgear. They did a good job in orientation telling people their mission, what they are doing, where the food is going, and what impact it has.
Here is a picture showing a staff member was demonstrating everyone how to team up and pack the food package. There should be at least 6 people in a group, one putting vitamin and protein in to the bag, one putting rice and grain into the bag, two people holding the bags and weighting them, and the last two people sealing the bags.
See our working station!
This is my project group and we had 9 boxes food that are sending to Philippine to help children suffering typhoon.
They also has a small marketplace selling bags and bracelets making by women in rural places. One of the amazing thing is that they put the maker's signature on the price tag so you can keep them! I like it so much that I bought a bag for myself!
Great job Vicky! I also volunteered for Feed My Starving Children at their Tempe headquarters. It was a great time of fellowship and helping a worthy cause. It's amazing to think that the food you are packing here will go to help someone halfway around the world. The food isn't bad either-- they cooked up a packet of food for us and let us taste it. My church group was pretty large so we competed against each team to see who could pack the most boxes... our team won:)! Glad you were able to take part in this activity!
ReplyDeleteIsn't volunteering the BEST!?!? I have never volunteered, or provided a service and then thought "gee, I wish I hadn't done that". I am glad you got the opportunity to do that. Maybe when you go back to China you can help organize service projects for people. I know when I lived in China a few years ago, we used to organize our own service projects, with the blessing of local party leaders.
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