We were in Savannah for an industry conference and one of our activities was a charitable donation…read moreof time. A busload of us drove over to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia for a volunteer activity. Our mission was to create weekend snack bags for school children of distressed families. The idea behind it was that when kids get school lunches, the school at least knows the kids get one good meal a day. But what exactly they ate over the weekend was unknown. So with that in mind, we divided our volunteers into three teams and set up an assembly line that stuffed zip lock bags with a fruit, canned chicken, a can of soup, a can of chili, a box of raisins, a bag of chips, a white milk, a chocolate milk, and 2 fruit bars. It was very inspirational to see our international collection of fellow volunteers working so hard, and cooperating as a team. Before we knew it, we had bagged 645 bags for the kids. What a wonderful and gratifying experience that was. In fact, we finished that task so quickly, we moved on to a second task -that of separating the countless bags and boxes of donated items into three categories- glass jars, cans, and soft goods. The Food Bank has quite a few volunteer opportunities, and I promise you that if you spend a few hours here, you'll walk out feeling a lot better about yourself than you did walking in.

I dont know why this is on Yelp but this is an amazing charitable organization!!!! Services the…read moresouthern Georgia coastal community!!