ing out at our local food shelter.Last night some of the DiVitas gang took a food-sorting shift at the Second Harvest Food Bank which has set a goal for itself to collect $10 million and 1.9 million pounds of food for its annual Holiday Food and Fund Drive.
Our assignment? Tackle the Nabisco section! We tore into 6-foot high palates of Nabisco cookies and crackers, dividing goods into “sweet” or “salty” piles and then packed the items (eight each) into smaller cardboard boxes for distribution.
As an organization, DiVitas likes to get involved in various community outreach events – we get to bond and
do a little good at the same time (of course the bonding-highlight last night was a group-dig through the garbage in search of a lost camera, which was thankfully recovered by one determined individual at the end of the sort!). This is our second year helping out with food sorting with Second Harvest, and we will definitely be back again. Second Harvest does a truly amazing job of collecting food and distributing it as needed. And boy is it needed. According to Second Harvest’s website: “Even as the economy begins to recover, the requests for help continue to grow since joblessness is still on the rise. Last
year our multi-lingual Food Connection hotline received more than 40,000 calls, a 44% increase over the previous year. Currently, more than two thirds of requests are from first time callers who have never before needed food assistance.”Food banks need your help to do their job of feeding hungry people. But if food sorting isn’t your thing, you can simply donate food directly. For example, throughout the mont
hs of November and December you can make a donation of the most-needed non-perishable foods to Safeway, Lucky, Save Mart or Food Maxx Store … or check your local grocery store if you live outside of the California region. Thanks to the folks at Second Harvest in San Carlos for doing such a great job organizing the community in such a meaningful way!
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