Many local bakeries and eateries throw out left over food. My brother and me will contact local restaurants and collaborate to pick left over food at end of day and donate it to a local organization that serves lunch to anyone in need. The organization is called Nourish KC. We plan to use recyclable bags to carry food.
Many local bakeries and eateries throw out left over food. My brother and me will contact local restaurants and collaborate to pick left over food at end of day and donate it to a local organization that serves lunch to anyone in need. The organization is called Nourish KC. We plan to use recyclable bags to carry food.
Many of our local bakeries, including those in grocery stores, already participate in food donation programs, which was both reassuring and encouraging to learn. tTo collect food, we expanded our efforts by reaching out to friends and family. Some of our friends grow their own vegetables and often have a surplus. Through this initiative, we collected about 40 donuts and numerous donut holes from a local mom-and-pop bakery, as well as several pounds of carrots and zucchini. The bakery items were kept in their original donation boxes, while we provided paper bags for the fresh produce. All items were donated to Nourish KC, a local food kitchen. This project grew to involve several other students and culminated in a four-hour volunteer shift serving lunch at Nourish KC.
Many of our local bakeries, including those located within grocery stores, already participate in food donation programs by regularly offering their unsold goods to organizations that support individuals experiencing food insecurity. Discovering this widespread participation was both reassuring and encouraging.
If we did this project again, we would try to do it when school is in session so we could ask more classmates, teachers, and families to donate. This would help us collect more food and get more people involved. It would also make it easier to spread the word and organize help for collecting and delivering the donations.
Working with my brother
This is very easy to do and prevent so much wastage.Volunteering at the place where you donate, like a food kitchen, makes the experience even more meaningful.
