Marietta College- Ely Chapman

This is Laura Finck and I'm working with the Ely Chapman Education Foundation in Marietta this summer. I'm helping with their Summer Food Service Program. I have a few different goals to help with my overall goal, which is to overall improve the program by stretching it to be the best it can be. First, I would like to get as many people coming in off of the streets as we can. There's a huge need for a feeding program in Marietta, yet we have very few people who come off the street. Ely Chapman served over 600 meals this week, mostly to participants in the summer camp. This is still incredible because these children need a steady supply of nutritious food. However, I think that we have the capacity to serve even more. So I would like to increase our client count. Next, I would like to increase the number of donations we receive. I would like to get donations from Harvest of Hope by working with Autumn and hopefully from local farmers by approaching people at the farmers' market. I will also be helping the camp councilors to plan three nutritious snacks to teach the kids to prepare. I did two already this week, so I may do more than that. Finally, I hope to decrease the food waste in the kitchen. I will be developing a program to do this that incorporates the children. We will be weighing the food waste and letting the children keep a chart to show our progress. This is to increase their awareness of the issue. I really enjoyed my first week and I hope to accomplish a lot this summer :) Good luck to everyone!!

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. - N.D. Walsch
^ I just thought this was a good quote to start with :)