Reflection

Hello, Everyone! This blog will be about my reflections so far on my project and the adjustments I have made. While reflecting on where I would like this project to go, I realized that some of my goals were a bit unrealistic. Although each goal is something to aspire to reach, in this short period of time that I'm doing this project, some of my goals were unrealistic to the time I had. Here are a few adjustments I have made to provide a realistic view:

Weekly Services
My Goal was to help 20 families in need each week, but seeing how much effort goes into actually obtaining all the items needed and finding families to give them to is a more of a challenge than I anticipated. So, instead of 20 families weekly, I have decided to focus the majority of my time weekly on community outreach, and finding 5+families to focus my time on. I came to the understanding that the whole idea around this was to reach out to people and give them hope through acts of kindness, it might be difficult to portray that kindness if you are so focused on the numbers instead of the individuals who are in need. Does that make sense? In conclusion to this point, I will be focusing more on 5+Individual Families,interacting, creating a relationship, and giving of time and kindness through the service of food distribution.

Long Term Goal
My long term Goal is to create a food closet that is open to the public. I realize that some people won't admit their needs due to embarrassment or personal issues, so I would like to create a food closet that is open for anyone to take without judgment.

Additions
Kindness doesn't have to be conveyed just with food, Clothing is a major need as well. I have decided to add clothing to the mix when creating/putting together the Food Closet. Clothing will also be available to whoever may need it. I have already accepted several donations from friends and a local church. I have a meeting with Pastor Scot Bobo to discuss using an unoccupied room in Hope Center Church to help set up this Food Closet. It will also be a great outreach tool to help people spiritually if they desire it.

Outreach
There are several ways I plan on and have already started concerning outreach to the community and receiving donations. Here are a few outreach tools:
1. Flyers- Promoting the cause, educating on the positive results, and the donations required to fulfill this cause.
2. Communication- Just by simply talking to people and expressing the need for the cause you are working towards inspires people to want to jump in and be apart of it!
3. Gathering from local businesses-This is sort of a combo of 2 &3 together if you convey the project yu are trying to do, most likely people will want to donate at least SOMETHING to you.  I've done things like this before and businesses can be very generous if they think your project is worth it.