By Patrick.

It was the crisp Saturday afternoon of March 14th when six Troop 5 scouts and community volunteers gathered in  Wyoming Presbyterian Church. They donned their hair nets and put on gloves with the goal to fill 5,000 bags of food for food-insecure kids in Burundi. There were four jobs: bag fillers, who had to fill their stack of plastic bags with uncooked rice and vegetables. Then there were the bag sealers, who took the filled bags, weighed them to see if they had too much food or not enough, and then would add or take away rice accordingly; and then, as the name suggests, once satisfied with the weight, they would seal the bags. Third, there were the box fillers, who took the filled, sealed bags and filled the boxes with a certain amount of bags. Lastly, there were the bag carriers or the muscle, who would pour the uncooked vegetables and rice into the bag fillers’ containers so they could continue their work unhindered. The work was slow, with a gong being hit by a young volunteer every time we filled another thousand bags. Some of the scouts worked for speed, others for precision. Finally, almost two hours later, it was finished: 36 boxes filled with enough food to feed 36 kids for an entire school year.