Table Of Plenty Information And How To Emulate Them

By Donald Perry


There are many organizations that are trying to help the community in any way they can. These usually comes in the form of voluntary work where they serve dinner, build housing and other things that can assist those in need. These groups are able to do this with the help of others who donate their money and time to their vision.

The most common of this voluntarism that can be found in communities are free dinners for those that are experiencing hardships. An example of this is the organization Table of Plenty HMB which serves dinner on Thursdays every week. They serve those struggling financially, just recently lost a job, elderly, homeless and others in Half Moon Bay, CA and areas nearby.

Food preparation is done by the volunteers with donations coming from others in the form of ingredients or finances. Ingredients that they use in cooking sometimes came from homegrown plants in gardens of people from the community. The meat sometimes even came from animals raised by them and other organizations lending their assistance.

The volunteers serving are all wearing a uniform with a smile in serving those who are eating inside the dinner hall. Tables have linen covering them and decorated with flowers at the center with beautiful background music playing. The ambiance is that of a high class restaurant which most of those present are not able to experience in their life.

You could become a volunteer and be part of this just by approaching the ones in charge with organizing this and mentioning your intentions to them. Individuals in all ages are accepted to help there with children gaining the most from this experience. They, along with the adults would have the awareness about those unfortunate members in their community and their needs.

You can also organize this free community dinners in your area if you want to help the people around you. The first thing you need to do is to gather people with the same intention as you are and make an initial group that would start this. You could also approach the local church for help as they are likely willing to assist you in this mission.

Next, find a big enough place that can accommodate many people that will be eating meals served by you. The local church may have an available space large enough for this purpose so try to ask them if they have and they are willing to let you use. If no space is available in there then try approaching and asking the community public school for the availability of their gym for this.

After securing a place, the planning stage will now start as to what the meals would be. Decide on something that can be easily cooked in big batches so that there would be many servings ready at the same time. They should be healthy as well and options should be available for those that are unable to eat certain type of food.

Assigned tasks for each volunteers on what their main responsibility is. They either would be assigned in cooking or in serving but helping each other when needed is possible. Schedule the date of this dinner and call for people to eat in there.




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