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Food Bank that provides food to Bay Area soup kitchens to feed the needy.
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Dec 15, 2011
- by djevoke
- posted in I Left My Heart in San Francisco
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When I had first heard of the Gilt City offer to volunteer at the Food Bank, I have to admit I was hesitant. I had never heard of having to pay to volunteer but, I had already agreed to do it. You should know that the Food Bank doesn't charge you, Gilt City charged us to cover their own costs (they state that 10% from 11/16-11/24 will be donated, so I do have a problem with the charge). But, onto the Food Bank experience.
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We showed up at 6p and attended a brief orientation. The warehouse that houses the Food Bank is huge and located at 900 Pennsylvania. It looked like a big Cosco with boxes of food and bags of onions, all incredibly well organized. Five volunteers were picked to haul and pack up the packed boxes, if I recall correctly.
Our group packing pasta
We then entered our workspace. A big room with five metal cooking tables, a locker for your private stuff, a shelving unit to hold heat sealers, gloves and other necessities. We lined up for our instruction and then, paired off in groups of six to start our work which was to weigh, bag, seal and label pasta. Each person did each job. We were lucky to be paired with two cool couples that kept the job at hand quick, fun and easy. I weighed the pasta and bagged the pasta then, went back to weighing since I was a bit slow at bagging. Fernando bagged and sealed the pasta. We set up our table like this: two weighers, two baggers, one sealer, one labeler and it worked really well.
If you want to do your part, sign up for whichever shift works for you (there's three- morning, afternoon and evening, each 2 hours) on their website.There is no season for hunger and you can sign up for a recurring shift, if you like and there's also an area where you can sign up groups. At the end of the night which was a 2 hour shift, we (including @devora and in the name of Lunch.com) prepped 2,240 pounds of pasta to be packed onto trucks and shipped throughout the Bay Area to feed the area's hungry. Not bad for one evening.
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HOW THE FOOD BANK WORKS
We collect millions of pounds of food from growers, packers, processors, manufacturers, the USDA and grocery stores. This can include test-marketed products, items close to code date, produce that is the wrong shape or size for conventional markets and excess. Food drives are an important source of variety.
We truck donated food to our warehouse. Multiple tractor trailer loads of produce come in through the week – these precious, highly perishable items get moved through our warehouse within 24 hours.
Volunteers sort, repack and shelve almost ...
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It's good to see that you're up to things like this and the crisis center. You just moved up a few notches on my cool list. I've done Habitat for Humanity and I tried to join Americorps, but could never send the application out because I couldn't figure out where my strengths were.