Last week, I took part in a volunteering work group called Harvest Market, in Astoria, Queens. My colleagues from St John's University and I packed, weighed and distributed vegetables, fruits and potatoes to low income people of that neighborhood. It was such a rewarding experience. First, because you can help improve other people's lives, and secondly, because you can interact with students from
other universities, from New York City and out of it. In my group I had students from different parts of the world: a
Vietnamese, a Chinese, two American girls and a classmate guy from Brazil. Certainly, this kind of project help us to do group work and to more opened to others point of view and experiences of other people. According to the volunteer leader, the main objective of the work is to provide healthy food for the population, including those suffering from chronic diseases; such as diabetes, high blood pressure. For most of them the daily processed and fast food meals can cause even more health problems. So, "the ultimate goal is to help develop healthy eating habits among the elderly and youngsters".
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