Benefits Of Volunteering And Northeast Iowa Food Bank

Heather French Henry states, “Volunteering is at the very core of being a human. No one has made it through without someone else’s help.” Volunteering is essential in communities. We need each other to rely on; we need a community to fall back on. Those who can give should provide to those who are in need, and the Northeast Iowa Food Bank does just that. They provide to those who are hungry through the use of food that would else be thrown away, being 100% effective with resources. For example, canned food that has been dropped has dents, making it hard to sell, so the store would throw the good away. However, now, because of the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, they donate it, feeding a hungry human being. What a store sees as non-profitable, a food shelter sees as beneficial.

To me, food drives meant collecting as much food as possible in order to win as a class. The food we collected would then be transported to a food shelter. Never actually knowing the foods next location, I was always curious about what the food shelter looked like. I often pictured a grocery store of scarce food, completely unaware. So, I was excited when I got the opportunity to actually see where the food I raised in high school ended up at. When I entered the building, I was shocked by its size and different departments. The building was so much more than I previously expected. There were offices, break rooms, sorting departments, and storage areas. From the outside, it was a warehouse, but from the inside, it was an