Youth volunteers help out over the weekend

About 100 teens from the Hartford Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had a day of service on Saturday.  Their favorite activity was making bags for Foodshare!  And the bags were competing with decorating cupcakes for Manna, sorting clothes for Charter Oak, and painting Bots Pots for Hands on Hartford!  Those all sound more interesting to me, but the kids liked it because it required very little “thinking” and they could sit in small circles and talk - it was really a hit for that reason.

Foodshare driver Alan went to the Bloomfield Church on Saturday morning and gave a quick presentation to the youth about the bags, which are used to bag the produce that is donated into family sized packages for distribution.  The least expensive way for Foodshare to have the thousands of bags we need is to buy large rolls of the net (these are net bags like onions come in), have volunteers cut them to the right length and then knot one end to make a bag.  The other end will get knotted after a volunteer at Foodshare’s Hartford location fills the bag with fresh fruits or vegetables.

Thank you to this youth group for their help!

This is an easy project that any group can undertake at their own site, even!  Let us know if you have a group that is interested!