Today myself and two other fellow SOCI240 students went to our first day of volunteering at Helping Hands in Puyallup. Helping Hands is an organization that supports homeless people. Currently they have 66 units for families to stay in when in need of a home.
Our task today was to organize their food bank. Even though nonparishable items have a long shelf life, they do not last indefinitely. It was our task to go through every item and evaluate if it was past its expiration date or if it looked like it was in bad condition. Even such seemingly mundane tasks must be done at volunteer organizations so that food given to families in need are nourishing and not hazardous. It also allows them to gauge how much usable food they actually have in inventory.
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Tell me more about what it was like to work there! What does it mean to you, for example, that these mundane tasks must be done by volunteers?
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