Samuel Weaver

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.

On Friday October 18th, I was volunteering in Feeding South Florida's Client Choice Pantry. Which is where people can come to get fruits and vegetables as well as other foods. I was tasked with bagging up various vegetables into netted orange bags. The vegetables were in big boxes that I had to sort through depending on their condition. Overall I bagged, onions, orange / yellow peppers, avocados, sweet potatoes, and eggplants. I was also tasked with putting bags of vegetables into the fridges they have in the pantry. I was the only volunteer for that shift so I was mostly on just working by myself but I did have a staff member help instruct me.
The very next day, Saturday October 19th, I was again volunteering for the Client Choice Pantry. I was doing mostly the same things as before. I was tasked with sorting and bagging Cucumbers, Sweet potatoes.Then I put away the bagged produce in Pantry Fridges, this included Cucumbers, Pre-Bagged Apples, and sweet potatoes. After I was done sorting and bagging the donated fruit, I broke down the produce boxes. Unlike the day before I was working with a few other people which made it more interesting.