A little over a month ago, I posted about the tornadoes that heavily affected several Metro Atlanta communities. What I mentioned in that post was things that are constantly being created are ways to help. While I wasn’t able to do very much during the tornado situation, I had an opportunity to be a part of something incredible on Saturday: Project Live Love!
Saturday morning, after a large cup of coffee, two of our close friends, my fiance, and I hopped in the car and headed downtown for the event. We pulled in the parking lot a little early, but there were plenty of other people there early and as excited as we were! We got in line to hand in our registration forms and find out which project we would get to be apart of. There were several projects occurring that day, and rather than type them out, I’ll just show you:
We ended up in Group 4 and we were pumped up! We changed into our Live Love t-shirts, had a brief meeting with everyone who was part of the project, then broke up into our individual groups. The 12 of us drove a few minutes down the road to the Atlanta Community Food Bank where we would be sorting, inspecting, and packing food in order to help families in need have food on the table. And what an honor it was to do this!
We watched a short video and learned a lot of things about the food bank. ACFB provides food to over 700 nonprofit agencies in close to 40 Metro Atlanta and North Georgia counties every month. Each year, the ACFB distributes over 20 million… yes, million… pounds of food to help the needy. It is was incredible to see how it all works.
We went into the GIANT warehouse and unpacked pallets and pallets of food, making sure to check that the donated food was unspoiled and not out of date. We worked for a few hours doing this and did not even put a dent in the amount of food that this place had to sort through. ACFB heavily relies on volunteers and I would definitely recommend this organization for anyone looking to give back to their community.
Here is a picture of our awesome group:
For anyone interested in being involved with upcoming LIVE LOVE events, there are a few ways you can help. The next event, which will have similar projects to this past event, will be taking place on January 7th and can be registered for online on their website. Another awesome project they have started is called THREE-OH-WE-GO! and will begin this winter. When the temperature in Atlanta goes below freezing, the Live Love crew will head downtown offering blankets, hot chocolate, and hand warmers to people on the streets. Each year, 20+ people die in Atlanta from sleeping outside in the cold and this year, Live Love wants to make this statistic change by doing love!
Everyday, more and more opportunities to help those in need are being created in our communities! How will YOU help?
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