Today, we woke up early around 7 a.m. We all packed into the van and
went to the Food Bank of South Carolina called Low Country Food Bank. After talking
with the incredibly passionate volunteer organizer, Autumn, we got to work on
bagging their most recent shipment of oranges and sweet potatoes. Autumn was
really excited about the oranges because they are not usually fortunate enough
to receive fresh citrus fruit and she was so happy to be able to distribute
that to the needy. This was my first time in a food bank, so it was really
incredible that with 13 people we were able to pack hundreds of pounds of food
in just 3 hours. It made me really want to seek out the local food bank around
UMD and help out there. We also went to see the Heart-Health program at MUSC.
This was a special program for overweight and obese children between the ages
of 2 and 22. We had a presentation given by the dietician and founder of the
program, Janet Carter. It was striking to see the statistics on the prevalence
of obesity. One major thing that stuck out to me was when Janet showed pictures
of children who were obese, in the 1% of highest BMI and they looked like
average children that you would not know were even overweight if you saw them
on the street. The program they ran was really incredible and I hope it is
successful in order to get more funding and expand to other locations of need
in the country. - Daniel
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