Project Angel Food (Food Delivery)

Grading:

Ease Sign of Sign up

4/5

Physicality (0 being no physical labor)

1/5

Fun Factor

4/5

Info:

Address: 922 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90038-2702

Phone: 323.845.1816

Hours: 8AM - 5PM, Sun-Friday

http://www.angelfood.org

Time Spent

11:30AM - 1:30PM April 24th, 2009

Pictures

Cut the crap:

Project Angel Food is a volunteer organization geared towards providing meals for those who are home bound due to illness and unable to prepare meals for themselves. It was originally set up to care for HIV/AIDS patients but now cares for people with Cancer and other debilitating diseases. It was started in 1989 and since it’s conception, has prepared and delivered more then 3.4 MILLION meals. To find out more about Project Angel Food click on the link.

Personal Experience:

We arrived at 11:30 in the morning to get ready for food deliveries. For the most part it is a pretty easy job. As usual, the staff at Project Angel Food is very appreciative and friendly. In the delivery area all the food items for the drop offs are put in one spot. It is your responsibility to put the different items in the correct bags. Since they don't deliver on Saturday, our bags were a little bigger then usual. This was so that the clients would have their Saturday meals, however the bags were not heavy or cumbersome in anyway. This was a bit different from our Meals on Wheels experience in several ways. At meals on wheels the coolers smelled pretty bad, however the directions from stop to stop were a lot better. Luckily Justin and I had a GPS, this made our route much easier. A convenient part of the Project Angel Food deliveries is that you don't have to return to their office when you are done to drop off anything. If there is any food that can't be delivered you can give away or eat yourself. There was one person who didn't answer the door and we were not allowed to just leave the food so Justin helped himself to some Cheerio's. We gave the rest to a homeless guy. The people we delivered to were a little more talkative then the people we served at Meals on Wheels but not by much. I am sure that the more we go the more we will have a chance to strike up some conversations.