Food Bank Reflection

In our learning through service class, our group project was to help a local food bank at Milford. The group was divided up depending on the amount of assistance that other people at the food bank need. I observed many things at the food bank which corresponds with the film “A Place at the Table”. In the film, I noticed that social programs or charities volunteers are rather lacking, there were not a lot of volunteers. At the food bank, there were quite a handful, but not enough to keep with the influx of work the food bank needs to finish for the day. I know that working at the food bank is quite gloom and happy, the prior knowledge I use to choose the community address that I think should be addressed the most is based on the coverage of

the media. This experience has broaden my horizons.
I felt satisfied with the experience helping out at the food bank, I just wish there was more we could do there. Helping out at the food bank showed some connections based on the reading and discussions on class. The food bank organization of groups follows the stages of groups. For discussions, at the beginning the director connected a lot of things about hunger in America, which was included in the film. Some new insights I gained was how the brands of food that were being given away had almost zero brand recognition for me, and there should be awareness of these minority brands because they’re the ones given away the most to the ones that need it the most. My role in supporting these groups was filling in after school snacks for kids. I help fill the necessary nutrition they need for a health afternoon snack, physical strengths was used the most in this task. In conclusion, the what this experience has taught me was patience and understanding, in life , some people will be troublesome, but I must understand everyone come from a different background and I must be patient and understanding to them through my life and professional career.