From a little girl, until now, I have always been raised on the principle of giving back to your community .
For over seven years I have been an active volunteer at the Inidantown Food Pantry. Though it seems like a minute role, it is a very impactful one. Indiantown is a small cited triangulated between Okeechobee, Stuart, and Palm Beach that, by statistics of the 2016 Census, houses just a little over 6,000 people. Within that number, there is an estimated twenty-five percent poverty rate, which means that about 1,500 people in this little town are struggling to provide for themselves or their families. This number does not include the amount of homeless people we have who live in the woods or the people who are still struggling financially but not enough to where they are considered poverty stricken. …show more content…
At the food pantry I work directly with the manager, to ensure that client who comes in gets food. Whenever there are deliveries, I am usually the one who stocks and re-organizes the shelves. I have participated in number food drives, where we are able to give food to over four hundred people in one day and even gone out and hand delivered food to clients who are to sickly or weak to come and get the food themselves.
Though many mat not see my years of dedication at the Food Pantry as a an accomplishment, when your are in my shoes and are able to see the lives that you are affecting, it humbles you as a person and makes you more grateful for the little things that you do
For over seven years I have been an active volunteer at the Inidantown Food Pantry. Though it seems like a minute role, it is a very impactful one. Indiantown is a small cited triangulated between Okeechobee, Stuart, and Palm Beach that, by statistics of the 2016 Census, houses just a little over 6,000 people. Within that number, there is an estimated twenty-five percent poverty rate, which means that about 1,500 people in this little town are struggling to provide for themselves or their families. This number does not include the amount of homeless people we have who live in the woods or the people who are still struggling financially but not enough to where they are considered poverty stricken. …show more content…
At the food pantry I work directly with the manager, to ensure that client who comes in gets food. Whenever there are deliveries, I am usually the one who stocks and re-organizes the shelves. I have participated in number food drives, where we are able to give food to over four hundred people in one day and even gone out and hand delivered food to clients who are to sickly or weak to come and get the food themselves.
Though many mat not see my years of dedication at the Food Pantry as a an accomplishment, when your are in my shoes and are able to see the lives that you are affecting, it humbles you as a person and makes you more grateful for the little things that you do