This past Friday, I participated in the Feed My Starving Children service event. Not only was it a nice opportunity to get off campus, but I also found it to be a truly meaningful experience that very few one-off events like these are. Feed My Starving Children is an organization that takes donations to pay for meals that get sent to hungry children in at least 70 countries around the world. Volunteers at mobile packing stations like the one in Ithaca work in shifts to pack the meals. We worked for an hour and a half and packed nearly two hundred boxes, each containing 36 meal packs, and each meal pack contained 5 servings. It was incredible to think that in that short amount of time, I was able to help put together thousands of meals that will go directly to children with who live with food insecurity. Although it was easy to zone out while performing our individual responsibilities during packing, this was definitely one of the most directly effective service projects I have ever been a part of.