Operation Food Search

I agree with how sad it is that St. Louis has such a high percentage of homeless people. Not everyone can help each one individually but there are some things you can do to help a majority of them. At my old high school, Lutheran South we would have a Faith in Action day every semester. This meant that two days out of the school year the whole school would go to different sites throughout the St. Louis area and help out those in need. The first time I went my group went to the School of the Blind and helped clean up and paint the old rooms to get them back into use. Another time we picked up trash throughout the city and helped people get their cluttered yards cleaned up. After going on these two sites I thought I had seen a lot, that was until my group went to Operation Food Search. This organization is huge with over 1,000 volunteers and has so many things they do to help out many different types of people in different situations. Operation Food Search helps feed over 100,00 people (half of them children) each month with over a million pounds of donated (nutritious) food. They have helped out so many family's with not only food. One of there most important projects is operation backpack. This is what my group did when we visited Operation Food Search. Did you know that 85% of public students in St. Louis rely on free or reduced price meals during the school week but come to a empty fridge on the weekends. This program gives the children a backpack on Fridays filled with nutritional snacks and food. The children keep the backpacks all weekend and return them on Mondays so the cycle can continue. If anyone is wanting to donate food or money to an organization, I highly recommend this one.