Service Learning Log 2—The Denver Rescue Mission
I volunteered at the Denver Rescue Mission in which I prepared and distributed food to homeless people. Preparing the food involved cutting up vegetables and deciding whether certain foods need to be thrown away because they were rotten. The first observation I noticed while I was preparing the food was the great amount of food that didn’t seem edible. Much of the food did not seem edible because it was rotten. I was surprised to see that there was lots of food donated to the Denver Rescue Mission that was rotten. I realized that even though some people or stores who donate the food may think the food is rotten but to other people it keeps them alive on a daily basis.
After preparing the food we helped distribute some of the food we prepared to the homeless people at the mission. I distributed food to many different types of people. One person I encountered helped me realize that homeless people are the same as non-homeless people in that they want rights and to be able to make decisions for themselves. When I served this person some of the vegetables that I had recently prepared, they got mad at me because it wasn’t food they wanted. I was taken aback at first that they would turn down free food offered to them but then I realized that even though they may be homeless of poor, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have a right to choose what they want. Another case similar to this was when I served a person food and they got mad at me for have two different types of food touching. This is another case that helped me realize that they want to have freedoms like other people.
Volunteering at the Denver Rescue Mission was an experience different than any other volunteer opportunity that I’ve had in the past. I was able to observe how different types of homeless people conduct themselves on a daily basis. The experience proved lots of stereotypes wrong and helped show me that homeless people are no different than people like you and I.
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