Saturday: Family Community Service / Haiti Food Relief / Kids Against Hunger

Today was a planned community service project to help with the devastation and hunger in Haiti. We have donated money and food already, but we wanted to do more as a family.   My husband, younger son and I assisted in the packing of food supplies for the Haiti Relief via the organization Kids Against Hunger. (Our older son had to work today.)  The event was hosted by one of our local mega churches.  We worked for about 3 hours with 150+ other people from our community--young and old alike. They said that we succeeded in packing over 20,000 meals during that time span.  Each packet that we packed held enough for  6 adult meals.  

I have to say that this is quite an efficient organization.  We talked while we worked in assembly line fashion with 15 other people at our table, each wearing little food service hair nets on our heads.  I think there were about 10 tables in the large room where we worked.  There were 4 of us to scoop the four food packet ingredients into the bags and 2 to hold the bags under the funnel to keep the momentum going.  Then the table divided to have the same jobs on both sides of it--  2 to pass the bags to the next station, 2 to weigh and adjust the quantities, 2 to seal the packets, 2 to stack and pack 36 packets into shipping boxes, plus others at the end of each table to seal the boxes in shrinkwrap.  They were then carted off  to the trucks and loaded up.  Others would drive them to the airport. They said that the Haitian people would receive the food that we packed early next week.

Quite a rewarding experience for us.  It was wonderful to see people from different churches and some of their friends and neighbors all working together for a single purpose--to help others in need.   We're also signed up to do this next month as a family together.  I am looking forward to it.