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Kara Blakinship
Tillery
2nd Period
Senior Project
November 28, 2011
Food Drive
Around the world how many people starve to death?It is estimated that some 800 million
people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who
actually die from it each year.There are approximately 15 million children dying each year.
Throughout the 1990’s 100 million children died from illnesses and starvation, and their lives
could have been prevented for the price of two days of the Military.
To start a food drive you need to get a decent amount of people to help you. Second, you
need to hand out fliers everywhere. Like restaurants, on the streets, to homeless shelters, and any
local stores around. Also, you have to get donations on things to help you cook and that’s where
it can become a timely thing. You have to make sure the people you are getting help from are
actually going to go through with it. Then you have to rent out a place to have it and make sure
it’s big enough to fit a lot of the people who came in. Make sure you plan it months in advanced
because you have to make sure you can have enough time to plan and set everything up. Last but

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not least, you have to wear a smile on your face and let them know they are well served and feel
comfortable.
Food drives can be known all over the United States. They bring a lot of happiness too
many kinds of people, whether rich or poor. A model of breaking the cycle of poverty that
works. “Ten people become an intentional community of support who, along with their
connections, to work for one year achieving the.”(United Methodist Church). There can be
different types of food drives. One most likely known is food drives on thanksgiving or
Christmas. For everyone to doesn’t have a family or a steady home they can go to the food drive
and spend holidays with caring people. Also the children’s healthcare of Atlanta does something
for the sick during the holidays. So I thought that I could donate canned goods to the children’s
parents to help them out in a time of need. Food drives can also be considered helping other
countries. In example feed the children. You see the commercials all over the television about
feed the children. That is a bigger event that I couldn’t do with just a short period of time. They
get all kind of people to donate food and make donations to help. In my project I took no
donations on the canned goods that I was giving to the homeless or the less fortunate. Even
though feed the children isn’t a food drive it’s considered helping young children who doesn’t
have a well economy and is in need for help.
There is a list of things you can do: set up a food drive where you cook, school
competitions, host a movie night and charge a canned good item, you can have pajama day to
make the kids bring food items. You can do a lot of things to help out the community. The
number one thing to do is get the kids involved. Kids can get the word around and set a positive
thing for everyone around the world. What I plan on doing is hosting a food drive at the daycare
I work at and tell the parents that a reward gets handed out to the kid who brings in the most

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canned goods. After they give the canned goods I need to go around and collect all of them and
see who is going to win the prize. We are throwing a surprise pizza party for the class who
brought in the most canned goods. After they found out who won all the kids were begging to do
the food drive again. This inspires me to not only do this as a project but to keep in going as an
ongoing project.
Food drive also doesn’t have to be where you cook for them you can also do a
food can drive. You can get with a local grocery store and ask them to put out fliers to collect
canned goods. Also you can set up something with schools, like a competition for the classes to
raise as many canned goods as possible. I met with one lady that works for a school and she said
every year around the holidays her school will see who can raise the most canned goods and
whoever raises the most will get free ice cream. So it can be good for both schools and a food
drive. Kids will get a flier sent home that tells their parents all about the food drive and what it
for. Then they will let they class make a box to put all the canned goods in. Then the kids get all
hyped up and will drive their parents crazy till they bring in canned goods. All kids see know
about how life is for other people because some kids, like me, will grow up and will want to help
the less fortunate and it will change their lives forever.
Schools all around the world are sending out fliers to reach out to people that need
it most. Kids are helping other kids to have what they need to survive. Everyone can join in on
the help to save hunger, not just adults. A flier I read talks about how much the food is needed
because it’s around Christmas time and they are trying to give the children and adults a
Christmas like they never had. So it’s important for everyone to join in. Churches around the
world are asking for help to start food drives for the homeless around holidays. Because how
would you feel to be homeless on the holidays? No matter how bad or how good the people are

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everyone deserves to be helped. “Everybody deserves a second chance in this world”(Shannen
Doherty).
Not everyone deserves to be in positions like this, so all the help you can get is needed.
Not only do churches do food drives places like, cub scouts, nursing homes, missionaries
and just everyday ordinary people. I chose this because I know what it feels like on holidays
when you have no one and no home. I’ve talked to many people on this journey and one man I
met and will quote him verbatim “food drives are the only thing I look forward too, when you
have no food, no home, or not family things like these will brighten your day.” This man
changed my view on everything. Not only does this make a change in you life, it makes a change
in their life too. “Good things come to those who wait.” I put this quote in my paper because the
less fortunate wait almost every day for something like this. Only once a year does this happen to
them. This quote has inspired me to make food drives happen more often to make this world a
whole lot better.
This project is going to change my life forever and inspire me till I get in college. It takes
a lot of hard work and effort to complete something this big. With setting up a place to have it to
making the place feel homely for the people that comes in, it’s a lot of stress to make something
like this happen. You have to keep a strong attitude and think positive the whole time. You may
not think it’s going to be a good outcome, but for me it was worth the stress.