The Breadsticks

It's midnight, on a school night, and ten women just spent the last two + hours making sandwiches and distributing them to those in Harvard Square. This first official event has shown me that there IS an interest on this campus, there IS a need we are working to fulfill, and there IS a desire to help others-willingly. One volunteer reminded me of something super important during our debrief tonight: we need to put the dignity back in our service. She used the example of personalizing the food we hand out instead of quickly putting together leftovers and odds and ends. This could mean writing notes, putting helpful packets of information together, and other sorts of great, creative ideas. 

All the volunteers who came out tonight were first-year students who willingly and openly gave up the better part of their night to serve others in their own community and learn about people who are different from them (but not too different they soon found). And this- this was all during midterms week. Do you remember it? Your first year at school, your first set of midterms, one of your first chances to prove yourself academically. And they were out helping others.

I am so proud of our small club that is quickly building into something bigger than what we are doing. We are exchanging ideas, creating goals, and surely making an impact.

As a Harvard masters student who saw us handing out our sandwiches said tonight and what we are now doing on a weekly basis- "that is beautiful".