Personal Narrative: My Experience At The Tri-Parish Food Bank

I worked with the tri-parish food bank up in Burlington. I chose to do this because in 7th grade when our class took several trips up to Skagit Valley, I enjoyed the experience largely and wanted to do it again. At the beginning of the year, there was an option to be an eighth-grade leader for seventh graders, and I jumped on the opportunity. The second service project that I did was I attended the women's march. This does not have a specific organization, but it is more about the fact of all women uniting no matter who you are and where you come from.

In my first service project, I served migrant farm workers. They work out in the farms and are often marginalized because many of these people are immigrants. When our group went up and served these people, we helped in the food bank, and also helped in the toy drive since it was Christmas time. I helped many children pick out their presents and try on new coats as well as sorting food so that they could make their way through the foodbank easier. The gifts made the children’s Christmases better and helped them feel like they lived a more normal life.

This CST was Option for the Poor and Vulnerable because the people I was serving were people that were quite poor and along with that, they were extremely vulnerable. They had to rely on us to get the food that they needed. At the women's march, I was doing both advocacy and direct service. I was right with the other women that had experienced oppression or abuse as well as it being a peaceful march that is made to speak out against the issue at large. The CST that was in action in this occurrence was Life and Dignity of the Human Person. No one deserves to be not allowed an education, equal pay, or have to experience abuse, and that is what we protested at this march. We were coming together and protecting each