Saturday, July 11, 2015

Helped out at the San Francisco Food Bank this afternoon

The Stanford Alumni association has a pretty large volunteer organization.  Today was a nice session up at the San Francisco Food Bank.  Stanford had a pretty good turn out and we had fun with food preparation.

Today, I was part of a crew packaging up bundles of snack food.  The food bank gets large pallets of food and our job is to re-package it into classroom sized portions.  Later I wound up sorting plums and nectarines.  A bit more work, and a lot more lifting.  Still the 2.5 hours went by fast.

I do recommend this to anyone looking for a great way to spend time with friends and family.  Food banks feed a lot more people than you might think (this one distributes 107,000 meals a day).  Here's a direct link to the volunteer calendar.  Pick a time and show up!


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