Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Day 6 of Community Service

Date Of Service: March 22, 2011     Time Spent: 2 Hours     Total Time: 15 Hours

Action: -Unloaded food from the truck
             -Filled bags with the food
             -Delivered food to retirement home

Next Action: By next week I plan on having my mentor and starting those hours

How Am I Doing?: Today was like the previous days of community service. The delivery truck arrived a little after 9 o'clock. I helped unload the boxes onto the tables around the room. We then took brown paper bags and filled them with food from around the room. Then I helped load the bags into the drivers cars.
          After that was finished I went with one of the volunteers to help deliver the food. We went to a retirement complex where we went to 12 different rooms throughout the complex to give the people their food.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Day 5 of Community Service

Date of Service: March 19, 2011     Time Spent: 4 Hours     Total Time: 13 Hours

Action: -Unloaded food from the truck
             -Set up food on tables
             -Handed out bags of food to people

Next Action: On Tuesday I'll be back at Mater Dolorosa packing bags of food and finishing up my community service hours.

How Am I Doing?: I arrived at the Hillside Church of God at 8 o'clock and found I was one of the only volunteers there because of the rain. So this meant I had to move a majority of the food inside the building. After all of the food was inside we started to place the boxes around the room at the tables they would be handed out at. I then helped setup cans of food on one of the tables.
         After I finished that I went to help one of the other volunteers outside where we were handing out more food. While we were outside it started to rain which made things a little difficult but didn't stop us. I was taking peoples tickets and giving them plastic bags to hold their food. After everyone was gone I helped clean up. 

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Day 4 Of Community Service

Date of Service: March 15, 2011         Time Spent: 2 Hours         Total Time: 9 Hours

Action: -Unloaded boxes of food
             -Packed brown bags full of food
             -Crushed and recycled empty boxes

Next Action: On Saturday I plan on returning to the Hillside Church of God to continue with my community service hours doing much of the same work I did at Mater Dolorosa.

How Am I Doing?:  For the third week in a row I was back at Mater Dolorosa. Much like the past two times I have volunteered there, I arrived about 9 o'clock and waited with the other volunteers for the truck to arrive. When It finally did, it brought more food than the past couple of times, which meant there was a lot more boxes to unload onto the tables.
         When the food was out on the tables I went around the room filling bags with the food. When that was done and the food was loaded I started to clean up the room. I then preceded to crush all of the empty boxes outside and recycle them.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Day 3 of community service

Date of Service: March 12, 2011       Time Spent: 3 hours       Total Time: 7 hours


Action: -Unloaded food from the truck
             -Handed out food

Next Action: On Tuesday I will go back to Mater Dolorosa to do more of the same work.

How Am I Doing?: At 8 o'clock I arrived at the Hillside Church of God. I met with a few of the people that run the food bank. Shortly after that the truck arrived with the food. We hand to use hand trucks to wheel all of the food inside the building. Once everything was inside we sorted the food onto tables around the room.
        I then stayed at one of the tables and handed out bags of apples. After all of the people received their food, we cleaned up the room and called it a day. 

 

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Day 2 of community sevice

Date of Service: March 8, 2011     Time Spent: 2 Hours     Total Time: 4 hours

Action: -Unloading boxes of food
             -Packing bags with the food

Next Action: This Saturday I plan on working at the Hillside Church of God, with that section of the Second Harvest Food Bank.

How Am I Doing? : I arrived at Mater Dolorosa at 9 o'clock this morning and met with all the other volunteers. After saying hello and goodmorning to everyone the delivery truck arrived. All the boxes of food were brought inside on crates and we placed the boxes onto the tables around the room. I then took the crates and placed them outside where they would be picked up.
               Then me and a few of the other volunteers went around the room filling bags with food. We placed the full bags on a table near the door where they were loaded onto carts to be wheeled to peoples cars so they could be dropped off. I then brought all the empty boxes outside where they were flattened and recycled.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Day 1 of community service

Date of Service: March 1, 2011    Time Spent: 2 Hours   Total Time: 2 Hours

Action: -Unloading food from truck
             -Packing bags with food

Next action: I plan on going to the Hillside Church of God and doing much of the same work with another group of people.

How am I doing? I arrived at Mater Dolorosa Church at 9 o'clock and met with Mary, who helps run the Second Harvest Food Bank. She informed me of what we would be doing and how everything worked. I was introduced to everyone that volunteered and other people that helped run it. Then the truck arrived and I helped unload the food and bring it inside the building.
        After the food was inside I helped fill the bags with food. When the bags were full, we carried the bags out to peoples cars so they could be delivered. I then helped with the clean-up by picking up garbage and throwing away the empty boxes.