Wheel L.
Yelp
I'm writing this review in my attempt to become an Elite for the year of 2014. But I think I can recap my experience with the Food Bank here. I volunteered here with Central Maryland Volunteers via MeetUp. The MeetUp capped the volunteer list at 12, but the facility could have surely accommodated more volunteers (that didn't make sense to me - I think the organizer from MeetUp wanted quality and quantity over just quantity).
While I was there, I was stationed at the conveyer belt, and I was in charge of packaging Tomato Sauce. Basically, this is what happens. A bunch of donations come in from different areas/sources around Maryland to the Food Bank. The Food Bank acts as a redistributor of these resources to families in need. To act as this redistributor, the Food Bank has to sort through a bunch of goods that come through their doors, which are often times not suitable for consumption. That is where the volunteer efforts come into play. These volunteers sort through these goods - this saves the Food Bank money, which, in turn, saves the state money. And us volunteers may get to see how much waste could potentially arise in the landfills if it were not for organizations like the Food Bank -- Back to my responsibility in packaging the Tomato Sauce goods into boxes. My task was rather slow, so I took the initiative to also package the canned tomato goods that neighbored the tomato sauce station because no one was on it. And a lot of canned tomato goods were filling the conveyer belt at the time. This kept me busy for the next two and a half hours. - I also chatted with a fella who was working right next to me. Our topics of conversation ranged from junk food to canned goods and engineering.
The volunteer experience was worth it. I wrote a bit more than I intended to aspire to obtain some Elite status on a review website (the struggle...)
