Canned Good Drive Research Paper

Gentlemen of Distinction, a club I joined my senior year prompted me to participate and start a canned good drive. The underlying motives of the club was to help out the community and show the people that there are African-American teenagers doing good deeds. Compared to the activities we did before, this one was different. Figuring out how to help these people in need was an underlying issue my club was trying to figure out. There are a million possibilities that pop in our heads to help out the community. In high school my Gentlemen of Distinction Club came to the conclusion that a canned good drive would be the perfect way to help out our community. By analyzing these perspectives, we figured out that the project would cause a chain reaction of kindness. Also, the community would have a chance to help out these people directly without having to disclose their …show more content…
Their perspectives of us would be that they are very grateful and happy that people would give their canned goods to help feed them and their families. They see their situation as unfortunate and think nobody can help them, but when people do can good drives to help them it gives them hope to get back on their feet. The fact that the public cares about them and are donating food to them is an amazing gesture. I would closely relate the experience I had with the soup kitchen to the same as the can good drive. For instance, when I was doing a soup drive these people were extremely happy that they were getting food. To me I feel like the experience is next to the same as the canned good drive. Homeless or poor, once given these goods, are very gracious about the food no matter what it is. It could be name brand canned goods or store brand and they still treat it like it’s a meal from the best of the best stores. The opportunity they craved was fulfilled by the hearts of very gracious Samaritans, which they greatly