Open Hand Mission Statement

This term, I worked at Open Hand Atlanta. I went to their headquarters in Atlanta and learned how to deliver meals. We went through a short training program to learn how delivering meals should be done. There were around 15 other people in our group. After we finished our training, we got our food bags. We had two food bags with food for around 23 people. We drove to each person’s residency and gave them their food. We would give them their food and fill out a form about who we gave it to. When we finished our route, we returned to the headquarters and had to put away our supplies. We cleaned our bags and ice packs and placed them back into the freezer room. We had to go through the pantry and put the leftover food back. The mission statement of Project Open Hand is displayed on

“Open Hand helps people prevent or better manage chronic disease through Comprehensive Nutrition Care™, which combines home-delivered meals and nutrition education as a means to reinforce the connection between informed food choices and improved quality of life” (Open Hand Atlanta Website). This mission statement tells me that this program is trying to help their

Most of them were living in assisted living homes, or small apartment complexes. These people were also a lot older than myself. I would guess around late 60s or older. These people could obviously not get out and get to the store to buy food for meals, so this service helped them out a lot. This service would make their lives easier and more enjoyable. I learned a lot from these people. They gave me insight on how little decisions could change my life forever. One person was an alcoholic when they were younger and were realizing that it was affecting their body many years later. I think that this insight will help me to make better decisions in my life and those decisions will make my life better in the