My community project for today was working in Food Bank. It was so much fun and we ended up sorting different kind of food that Food Bank receives from groceries stores and we were mainly checking the expiration dates and sorting them as type of food they belong to. We were working with 5 boys from Winston-Salem high school and it was fun to meet them.
After CI, we come back to our main facility and we had some educational time. We were discussing about poverty and we had few very interesting workshops. Last one was the one who touched our hearts very deeply. We were invited to come into one room and pick one small piece of paper from hat and after that we were split in 3 groups – high income, middle income and low income. My paper said that I belong to high income. There were around 8 people in high income, around 15 in middle income and all others (around 30) in low income.
High income had a chance to sit at the nice decorated table and we got really nice food served to us. Middle income got bi pot of rice and a lot of lemonade and low income got small pot and 2 glasses of water they had to share. Me being in high income, it was really hard to eat nice food when watching my cast members having to share small pot of rice and not being able to give them our food was frustrating but at the same time really awkward. I didn’t have appetite to eat any food.
Of course, after the workshop, we started really nice discussion and it seemed that everyone were frustrated because of the situation how in reality it’s really hard to help poor people as sometimes government doesn’t help you to help. It’s been really harsh discussion.
Post je objavljen 24.10.2007. u 22:40 sati.