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Rise Against Hunger - Feb. 18th




On the morning of the Sadie Hawkins dance, my church, First Baptist Church Carrollton, hosted a Rise Against Hunger event that is community-wide. I usually like to go to this event alone and can get service hours for the amount of time I've spent volunteering. Rise Against Hunger is a non-profit organization that involves packaging food and distributing it to help people around the world. Most countries that receive this food are still developing and need assistance concerning food and nutrition. Their main goals are to advocate, educate, and mandate food security all around the globe. 


This relates to my blog because my Sadies date, my friend, and I wanted to go before Sadies as a kind of icebreaker before the night began. We met that morning at my church and were immediately put to work by the church staff who were also volunteering. We were assigned to make boxes for the food to be packaged in. This sounds a little boring, but it left room for conversation. All three of us talked about what we wanted to do beyond high school and what our college plans were. I told them that I had not yet decided and that I still had to hear from more colleges. 


Eventually, we moved to the actual event, which was to package the rice and bag it up. Each of us was positioned at tables around the room and had a different role. My job was to scoop up the dried vegetables and drop them into the rice bag. Each bag contains rice, grains, dried vegetables, and a bag of seasonings. Each of us had a job at the table to put all of these contents in a bag and seal it up. This went on for about an hour before our shift ended. Over the years we have hosted a Rise Against Hunger event, and the number has increased in the amount of bags that were made. Last year we had a total of about 10,000 bags produced by the time we were finished. I believe that this is an amazing project to be a part of. The amount of things that I've learned just from volunteering means that this can impact anyone in incredible ways. I recommend this project to anyone who likes helping out in the community and the act of serving others.

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