Volunteer Spotlight: Spencer Frye
Spencer Frye
Executive Director
Athens Area
Athens Area
Habitat for Humanity
Having worked in affordable housing for over 10 years in different capacities ranging from actual construction manager to executive director of a local non-profit, I feel I have a wide variety of experience by which I am able to understand the level of poverty in and around this community.
People were lined up in two rows of vehicles circling around a huge school parking lot and spilling out into the street. I was on the crew that put boxes of food in the vehicles.
What I realized was that almost every car had children in it. Then it hit me - without a service like this, an organization of dedicated volunteers, these children would have fewer meals to eat, have fewer nutritional options, and could go to bed hungry.
Here we are in the most blessed country in the world and we should not let our children go hungry. This is why I will volunteer again and I fully support the efforts of this remarkable organization.
Little did I know, that nothing in my experience had prepared me for what I saw at the October 1st POUR mobile food pantry.
People were lined up in two rows of vehicles circling around a huge school parking lot and spilling out into the street. I was on the crew that put boxes of food in the vehicles.
What I realized was that almost every car had children in it. Then it hit me - without a service like this, an organization of dedicated volunteers, these children would have fewer meals to eat, have fewer nutritional options, and could go to bed hungry.
Here we are in the most blessed country in the world and we should not let our children go hungry. This is why I will volunteer again and I fully support the efforts of this remarkable organization.
Spencer Frye
Executive Director
Athens Area Habitat
Posted by POUR Inc. at 12/3/2009 10:09 AM 
Categories: Mobile Food Pantry, Volunteering
Tags: Community Compassion Volunteer
Categories: Mobile Food Pantry, Volunteering
Tags: Community Compassion Volunteer
Comments