Zach and JustinWelcome, Willkommen, Bruchim Ha'Baim, Aloha, Benvenuto, Marhaban, and Bienvenido. Zach and Justin are both college graduates with some free time that we want to put to good use. We came up with this great idea to start doing some volunteer work in the hope of helping others while bringing awareness and hopefully inspiring others to do the same. Our goal is to show that volunteering is both fun and fulfilling! Every place we go to, we will share our experience along with photos. We have also created a Facebook group, L.A. Karma Project, which we encourage you to join. We will be posting events to get groups together to help out. If you have any suggestions of places to volunteer at, be sure to let us know. Also, if you have been to any of the places we have already written about, please leave a comment to let others know about your experience. Thanks for checking out the site!

Shanes Inspiration

Monday, April 27, 2009


Third times the charm... But the first and second times were great fun too, so I guess that saying doesn't apply. As usual Shane's inspiration was a great time in the park. The weather was great and everyone had a blast. For entertainment, Campbell Hall's theater club put on two great skits telling Colombian folk tales. Thanks to Jennifer and Amanda for coming and helping out. And no thanks to Josh and Nick, who decided playing golf on the adjacent golf course was a better use of time than enriching the lives of today's children.

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Project Angel Food (Food Delivery)

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Project Angel Food

Grading:


Ease Sign of Sign up
4/5
Physicality (0 being no physical labor)
1/5
Fun Factor
4/5

Info:


Address: 922 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90038-2702
Phone: 323.845.1816
Hours: 8AM - 5PM, Sun-Friday
http://www.angelfood.org



Time Spent


11:30AM - 1:30PM April 24th, 2009
Pictures

Cut The Crap:


Project Angel Food is a volunteer organization geared towards providing meals for those who are home bound due to illness and unable to prepare meals for themselves. It was originally set up to care for HIV/AIDS patients but now cares for people with Cancer and other debilitating diseases. It was started in 1989 and since it’s conception, has prepared and delivered more then 3.4 MILLION meals. To find out more about Project Angel Food click on the link.


Personal Experience:


We arrived at 11:30 in the morning to get ready for food deliveries. For the most part it is a pretty easy job. As usual, the staff at Project Angel Food is very appreciative and friendly. In the delivery area all the food items for the drop offs are put in one spot. It is your responsibility to put the different items in the correct bags. Since they don't deliver on Saturday, our bags were a little bigger then usual. This was so that the clients would have their Saturday meals, however the bags were not heavy or cumbersome in anyway. This was a bit different from our Meals on Wheels experience in several ways. At meals on wheels the coolers smelled pretty bad, however the directions from stop to stop were a lot better. Luckily Justin and I had a GPS, this made our route much easier. A convenient part of the Project Angel Food deliveries is that you don't have to return to their office when you are done to drop off anything. If there is any food that can't be delivered you can give away or eat yourself. There was one person who didn't answer the door and we were not allowed to just leave the food so Justin helped himself to some Cheerio's. We gave the rest to a homeless guy. The people we delivered to were a little more talkative then the people we served at Meals on Wheels but not by much. I am sure that the more we go the more we will have a chance to strike up some conversations.

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New Logo and April Fools Joke

Thursday, April 2, 2009

L.A. Karma Project
Hi everyone. Just wanted to let you all know that our post yesterday was our April Fools joke... for anyone who took it seriously. I know we got a couple laughs out of a few of you. Also I wanted to take a chance to give a huge thanks to Jason for the sweet new logo he made for L.A. Karma Project. If anyone needs some graphics done let me know. I will put you in touch with him. Justin is getting it tattooed on his chest. Thanks for stopping by!

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