Compulsa Food Bank Assignment

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In our first assignment we volunteered in Tulsa Food Bank. Tulsa food bank was founded in 1981. The Food Bank distributed more than 21.6 million pounds of food throughout the 24 counties of eastern Oklahoma. As I have given brief information about the organization we volunteered for. I will talk about what we have done in the Tulsa food bank. I helped sorting and packaging so many different donated items from individuals and companies. When we walked in the Food bank we had to file out volunteer paper then they took us inside the warehouse to start working on sorting and packaging all kinds of food.
First we start sorting and checking the food, so we had to check the items date, check for any damages, and make sure that the items have the

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