Weekend Volunteers Kick off the Summer in Houston

Brighter Bites Houston launched its third summer season with an especially exciting twist last weekend. We held a volunteering event at the Houston Food Bank utilizing our assembly line process to bag potatoes, onions, corn, and green beans in preparation for our first week of distributions.

Typically we do bag everything onsite but for the first time we gave our parents and community members who aren’t available to volunteer during the work day a chance to contribute to the program in a new and different way. Not only did we meet new volunteers, but we also had the opportunity to work more closely with the Volunteer Productions Department at the Houston Food Bank. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of working in the carousel room at the Houston Food Bank you know how much fun we had last Saturday. Everyone is ready to work and have fun. Over 20 community volunteers helped us fill 456 bags of potatoes, onions, corn, and fresh green beans (about 15 lbs. apiece, if you’re counting, which we are). All of the bags were delivered on Tuesday to Gulfton Promise Head Start and Ripley House, two of the larger Brighter Bites sites in Houston. Having the produce pre-bagged helped to make the distributions run quite smoothly. We’re going to hold several more weekend volunteer events throughout the Brighter Bites seasons. Keep an eye out on Volunteer Match as well as the Houston Food Bank volunteer calendar.