My company commits to having volunteers at a church in Palo Alto once a month to help prepare and serve hot lunch to homeless people or anyone wanting food. Each employee gets 30 volunteer hours a year to use on volunteer work. Today was one of those days and they needed people so I signed up and brought the kids since they didn’t have school. Yesterday was the last the day of the school semester so the kids had today off. I’ve been wanting to bring the kids here for some time: 1) so they can see first hand that for some people, this meal is the first meal they’ve eaten for days and 2) so they can do some community service in general.

They washed and chopped vegetables to make a hand tossed salad

Tyler enjoyed working the window handing out the plates of food and offering salad, bread, and butter

We spent 2 hours in the kitchen and after cleaning up, I took them out to lunch and treated them to milk shakes since they did a good job. They seemed to like working in the kitchen and wouldn’t mind going back!