Vivek Sharma & Vishal Sharma - 8th Grade

Volunteering at the Capuchin Soup KitchenWhile we often like to say how busy and hectic things are at school and over the weekends one of our goals this year was to serve our community. My brother Vishal and I are in 8th grade at the middle school and our mom helps find us many opportunities to volunteer throughout the year in the local community.We don[?]t have to [?]find[?] time...we have to [?]make[?] time is what she says and she is right. We always make time for the things we want to do and volunteering is one of them. Days on which school is closed for meetings or other holidays provide a great opportunity since the schedule is posted in advance as do weekends, we did several this year and I want to highlight one which was [?]a day at the soup kitchen[?]We arrived at this building in a run down neighborhood in Detroit and were taken to the kitchen where we saw a video and understood the purpose of the mission and what we were to do. Then we put on aprons and were assigned our tasks at the food station; I was handing our condiments and Vishal was adding burgers to the sandwich. It was an orderly work-station that served over 300 people that day. A simple sandwich, fries, condiments and milk had the lines out of the door. There were kids as young as 3 and elderly who could barely walk. They had gratitude in their eyes for the food that was served and it made my brother and I appreciate how fortunate we were in our own ways. There were people who asked me for extra mayo and the supervisor explained that for some of them who didn[?]t have dinner these condiments would serve as a meal in a pinch..that really had us wondering about how much of a value this soup kitchen was providing. Why were they there? Why were they hungry? We understood to serve without judging those in need and also appreciated what we had received