Food bank work filling experience

Members of the Lakeview School Builders Club in Regina, Saskatchewan, are no strangers to service. The club plants flowers at Kiwanis Park in Regina; sells daffodils for its sponsor, the Kiwanis Club of Regina; helps around its school, including painting lines on the playground area; and reads to and visits with preschoolers at the Regina Early Learning Centre.

But club members list one ongoing project as their favorite: volunteering at the Regina Food Bank.

“Assisting the food bank was suggested by a member of the club a couple years ago and has continued regularly since,” notes Don Jesse, the club’s Kiwanis advisor. “The students thoroughly enjoy the time they spend there, because they know whatever they do is helping the less fortunate.”

Club members report to the food bank two or three days each school year to perform tasks the facility has prepared for them. Generally, the food bank lines up huge containers of nonperishable and perishable food items from which the students—in a production line operation—gather a prescribed quantity of each item to put into bags for distribution to needy families.

“These are caring and compassionate students,” Don says, “who are highly motivated to make a contribution to their community, and the world at large.”