1. The Power of One
By: Kelsey A
Period 3

2. The Planning Process Identify your concerns Set a Goal Form a Plan Act
Follow up

3. Identify your concerns
Work at a local food bank-to help package foods that will help starving homeless people

4. Set a Goal
I will volunteer 4 consecutive Saturdays for 3 hours at a time at the local food bank

5. Form a Plan Decide which food bank I will volunteer at
Contact Northwest Harvest to see the hours they are open
Ask what is necessary to volunteer (closed shoes, lots of layers, and hair tied back)
Plan on which Saturdays to volunteer
Write dates down on calendar
Call some friends to see who can come with me to document my volunteer time
Drive down to Kent Northwest Harvest at 9:00 AM with friends and family on the first Saturday
Sign in our names on the volunteer list
Wash hands and put on hair nets and gloves
Take picture before starting
First task: Peel onions for three hours
Take picture during
Take a picture after
Sign out on volunteer sheet (12:00 PM)
On the following Saturday drive down to Northwest Harvest at 9:00 AM with friends
Sign in on sign in sheet at the front of the warehouse

6. Continued Take picture before starting Given first task, start
First: box apples for an hour and a half
Take picture during
Change gloves
Second: get in assembly line and bag frangos for another hour and a half
Sign out on the sign in sheet
Take picture After
On the following Saturday drive to the Rainer Valley food bank in Seattle, WA with friends
Sign in on sign in sheet
Wash hands put on gloves
Take a picture before
Get into groups of 6 and make an assembly line making sack lunches
Move over to another station to weigh out dried beans
Place beans in bag when reached a certain weight
Staple the bags shut
Place into sack lunches
Keeping making sack lunches for 3 hours
Take picture for after
Sign out on sign in sheet (12:00 PM)

7. Continued
Drive to Northwest Harvest in Kent, WA the following Saturday at 9:00 AM with friends
Sign in on sign in sheet in the front of the warehouse
Wash hands
Put on gloves and hairnets
Take picture before
Decide which task to do: either package corn or bag rice
Choose which one: I chose to bag rice
Walk over to the separate room to start bagging
Go over to huge bin where all the rice is stored
Grab a paper cup for scooping
Scoop up rice in cup to place in plastic bags
Tie plastic bag then put in box
Put box on cart
Take picture during
Bag rice continually for 3 hours
Take picture after
Sign out on sign in sheet (12:00 PM)

8. Continued
After leaving on the 4th Saturday come home and document time and organize pictures taken

9. Act Location of Volunteering:
-Northwest Harvest: West Valley Hwy. Kent WA, 98032
-Ranier Valley Food Bank: 4205 Rainier Ave S Seattle, WA
Times/dates:
-November 14th 2009: 9 AM-12 PM
-November 21st 2009: 9 AM-12 PM

10. Continued -December 5th 2009: 9 AM-12 PM
Tasks completed:
-Peeled onions
-Boxed Apples
-Bagged Frangos
-Bagged rice
-Made sack lunches

11. Follow Up
The first day we were given this leadership I pretty much knew what I wanted to do. I chose to work at the food bank because a lot of people are homeless and are deprived of food. I thought what a good chance to help those people in need. I was able to achieve my primary goal, which was to help the homeless. I volunteered four weekends in a row and worked 3 hours at a time, for a total of 12 hours of volunteering. I'm so glad I decided to do this because I got to think about other people and how much this would help them. This experience has helped me really appreciate what I do have. Most people take for granted the food that’s on their table, they don’t realize how the food gets there; which is through hard work. If their parents didn’t work and help supply the family, they would be in the same position as some of these starving people that show up to these shelters. If they were in these peoples’ shoes they would want volunteers to supply food as well. I'm really blessed to have what I have, and I feel by helping at the food bank I'm giving back to my community. What goes around comes around, if we help others when they are in trouble hopefully one day they will help us as well. I will most defiantly be going back to Northwest Harvest more often, this doesn’t end with this project.

12. Before

14. During

23. After
Like the hairnets? (;