Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities with Feeding South Florida

On Friday November 8, I volunteered for Feeding South Florida's Sorting and Packing Experience. For this shift there’s multiple different jobs involved you could be a sorter, runner, builder, or packager. I was a runner, which meant I was going around bringing the boxes from the sorters to the builders. Also proving sorters boxes to fill up, sorters boxes to put the same foods in, and lids for the packagers to put package the boxes. It also meant I was bringing any water to the water palette, getting any extra lids, boxes, etc. out of the way of the sorters. I was also responsible for breaking down any random boxes and staying on top of each of the trash cans at the sorting tables. I was also responsible for helping the Feeding South Florida employee Chris, who was running our session with any other projects he needed done. So basically, I was running around trying to help everyone my entire shift. It wasn’t too bad though, just moving around a lot.
At the end of the shift the administrator of Feeding South Florida gathered all of us and told us we sorted 9,000 lbs. of food and got past our goal of 7,000 lbs. We also helped provide 8,000 meals for those in need of food.
On Saturday November 9, I was signed up for Feeding South Florida's client choice Pantry. There were two other people and myself signed up for that shift. But because the Client Choice Pantry didn’t have a lot of work that needed to be done, they had me help an employee, Chris, with cleaning and setting up the Sorting and Packing experience. Feeding South Florida had a company fill in all the Sorting and Packing experience slots for that day so they wanted it to look extra nice and clean. I was tasked with sweeping the floors, picking up trash, and putting trash liners on the trash cans. I was only there for an hour so that took up all my time.I kind of felt like I was more of an employee then a volunteer since I wasn't working on sorting or anything.The shift I was signed up for was three hours but I had to leave after an hour.