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The Numana Experience

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On November 7, I partook in the NUMANA food packaging event with my Key Club in Dodge City. I woke up early in the morning to ride to Dodge. When we arrived in Dodge at nine in the morning, we headed to the Civic Center. Upon our arrival, we were given gloves and hairnets to wear. We waited for a table to package at for about ten minutes and then we go to work. Our club was split into two to work at different packing tables. The way the tables worked was that there was ten to twelve people at a stations and we were set up in an assembly line. A few people poured rice, beans,herbs, and vegetables. The next people weighed the bags to make sure they were the right size. The people at the end of the assembly line sealed the bags and placed them …show more content…

First of all, I managed to help out the Numana staff. The Numana staff work hard and I believe I made their job easier. Our group tried to work diligently without bothering the staff members too often. They were able to help other groups without having to worry about us as much. We also helped out the Numana organization as a whole by participating in their event. The Numana organization is solely based off of volunteer groups and by participating, we kept their group going. We supported them by showing up and by working hard to make their organization look good. Next, I supported my Key Club by participating in Numana. Key Club needed around twenty people to volunteer for the event, and by signing up I signed up to represent my club in front of hundreds of people. I believe that my group and I upheld the values of Key Club at the event by acting appropriately and working hard. Last but not least, my group helped thousands of starving people around the world by partaking in this event. There are millions of people in the world suffering from hunger and my Key Club was able to feed hundreds of them. One meal that we fed them could make or break them. Numana events have benefited children and families in The United States of America, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Vietnam, El Salvador, Malawi, Honduras, Colombia, South Africa, Rwanda, Philippines and Liberia. It is amazing that our group may have fed people …show more content…

On November the 17th, I was dismissed at 3pm from school to drive over to the stoplight parking lot. After our arrival, a semi truck pulled into the parking lot, along with several other vehicles. The staff introduced themselves to us and quickly put us to work. We helped them set up tables first. Then, we helped them unload and organize the food from the trucks. We then delegated tasks to each other and got to work with the food handout. The way it worked was in an assembly line order. Most of us had food to handout and some of us had to help carry the grocery bags to people’s cars. My job was to give out the peas, the tomatoes, and the boxed rice. I had to place them in the grocery bags and pass them on to the next worker. When I ran out of something, I had to check the pallets for more or ask a staff member to find me some. After an hour of working my station, one of the girls the next station over had to leave. I had to temporarily cover her job and mine at the same time. I was in charge of covering six different foods for that time period. Eventually, my club sponsor helped me so that I could keep up. After we handed out all the food, we had to help take down the tables and load up the extra

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