Second Harvest - Giving Hope Food Pantry


This month I had the opportunity to volunteer at the Giving Hope Food Pantry of New Orleans with my friend Teddy! The Giving Hope Foundation was started by Troy and Tracy Duhon, and they established the Food Pantry of New Orleans by transforming their car dealership building into soup kitchen. The pantry serves almost 200,000 hot meals and over 1.7 million pounds of groceries to low-income seniors and families each year. We were able to participate in putting together nutritional food boxes with meat, produce, dairy, and bread. To efficiently make as many food boxes as possible, we first organized and filled shopping carts with bulk supply of each food item including non-perishables, cereals, fruit cups, and more. In an assembly line fashion, we filled all the boxes with one food item before moving onto the next. At 11 AM, all the families arrived and filed into the warehouse for us to load the boxes onto their carts. The families would then bring their box back to their vehicles and go through the drive-thru portion to get the remaining larger items. While the day was long, the gratitude of each family made me feel like I made an impact. I will be returning to the Food Pantry of New Orleans, as Ms. Betty says, “In a city known for food, it is a shame that so many people are going hungry every day.”  











7 Hours
Semester Total 12 Hours 
 





















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