Cameron Mara - Day 2

Today was the first day of doing volunteer work and we went to two different places: MedShare and Project Open Hands (POH).
MedShare was really cool because normally hospitals throw out all the things that were taken out of there packaging and they end up in landfills even though they are perfectly usable. What MedShare does is provide an alternative use for said medical supplies. They have placed bins in 14 different hospitals across California and on a weekly basis collect what is in the bins and sort out what is and is not useable (using a list of approved objects written by the FDA). We helped to do the sorting and packaging.
The second place, POH, is a really cool place. They cook and package meals for AIDS/HIV patients and depend on volunteers to deliver them because some of them are unable to leave their SRO (Single Room Occupancy) Hotel, those will probably be talked about later so I'm just going to leave that out because its a long description. Anyway, we split into two teams and each served about 12 meals at 5 different hotels.
I enjoyed POH more than MedShare. For one, MedShare has just recently started up in San Francisco and it still isnt very organized in how things are run, as compared to POH which has been around for 15 years and had State Funding. The main reason though was because when we were working for POH we got to go into the places where people lived and see how thankful they were to be receiving a small tray of food. It was awesome.
And, that was our second day in San Fran.

Funny Thing of the Day - Chest-tling (v). Wreslting while standing, and not being able to use any extremities of the body.