Before Nicholas and Jack talk about their experiences volunteering for the Freestore Foodbank I want to share with you a couple of startling statistics. In the area served by the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati, Ohio there are over 92,600 children who are food insecure, meaning they don't know where their next meal will be coming from. That is 21% of the area's kids or 1 out of 5. The Freestore Foodbank provides a program called Power Packs which provides 4500 children with food to tie them over from Friday after school to Monday morning.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nicholas:
Why do you like to volunteer for the Freestore Foodbank?
Because I can help other people by giving them food.
What does the Freestore Foodbank do for kids?
Today we helped them so that they had food on the weekends.
If you could do any type of volunteering what would you do?
I would help other people by giving shoes to kids who don't have any.
Jack:
I helped people have more food so they can live and survive longer.
What was your favorite part?
I don't know, everything was my favorite.
What was your least favorite part?
Breaking the cardboard box.
What do you think Martin Luther King Jr would think about the work that you did today?
Very good and (he would be) proud.
Special thank you to Panera Bread for the coffee, hot chocolate and "sweet treats" after all of our hard work! AND Aunt Korie for the super fun company and all of HER hard work.
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