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Three Square Food Bank Learning Experience

Jasmine Vazquez

College of Southern Nevada

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Abstract

This paper is a reflection on the volunteer experience at Three Square Food Bank. I will be

talking about the work that was done, how it benefits the community and the learning experience

during these 10 hours of volunteer.

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Three Square Food Bank Learning Experience

Since high school, I had wanted to volunteer at Three Square, but I never ended up going.

I am glad that I decide to do my ten-hour volunteer service at Three Square. I made sure to get

an even amount of time in the warehouse and in the kitchen.

In the warehouse, there are many jobs that can be done but we have to work in

groups/teams. In my group, we sorted and stacked: different kinds of bread, and canned food on

to shelves they had. We also separated drinks, and snacks into different boxes to make it easier

for the workers to know what they had. Inside the warehouse, they have a lot of canned food,

milk, and juice that are still wrapped in plastic. We had to get rid of the plastic around them and

restack them to make it easier to transport it the kitchen for them to pack into the lunches.

In the kitchen, you help prepare the boxes and pack the lunches. The way you prepare

them is in a type of assembly line. You have three people in each group. This is done in the

morning to make the lunch packing easier in the afternoon. Once everyone comes back from

lunch at one, the kid’s lunch packing starts. The lunches are usually different depending on what

the lunch is, where it is going and what ingredients they have. The lunch packing has an

assembly line as well, usually consisting of seven people.

I noticed that many people volunteer here, there are many from a young age to older

people. Every day there is a group of people, usually from a casino but nevertheless, in the end I

hear at least someone asking if they can come again and how can they sign-up. The experience is

really uplifting, you hear and see how these lunches help the children who do not have the

opportunity that many of us do and take advantage of.