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Donated food ready for sorting and packing

Yesterday I helped feed hungry families.

How? Along with a group of my colleagues, I spent the afternoon at the Capital Area Food Bank, the largest non-proft hunger and nutrition education organization in the DC area. The food bank collects, sorts, and distributes over 20 million pounds of food to the hungry in the area. Where does the food come from? Grocery stores, growers, retailers, and food drives are just some of the donors. The food bank then supplies food to homeless shelters, soup kitchens, day care centers, and other agencies.

We packaged individual bags of food for a neighborhood center, which will distribute them to the hungry among us. Even though our work was hard and serious, we still had fun. We brought our own music, and we sang and danced as we sorted and packed each bag with a can of tomatoes, a can of vegetables, a pasta or rice item, a pantry item, a snack, a drink, and a diet product. I even juggled cans of Vienna sausage!

You can help prevent hunger too. Just by donating a bag of rice, a can of fruit or vegetables, or a box of pasta or cereal, you're helping a child or a senior citizen or a family eat. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said:

"Everybody can great because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant."