I have wanted to participate in community gardening since my freshman year at Rhodes. The on-campus organization for all things environmental has always been active. Rhodes opened its own garden on campus and hosted weekly farmerâs markets. When I thought volunteering, I thought gardening, and I was grateful to be
Today I made my way over to Playhouse on the Square to help Indie Memphis with its annual Indie Memphis Film Festival. I was thrilled to check this out. Indie Memphis brings together local independent filmmakers, film-lovers. artists, and attendees (some big names too!) to the same spot in an incredible outpouring
My day at St. Maryâs Catholic Church Soup Kitchen started early. The rain and my post-biking body aches made it difficult to get out of bed, but my âstrugglesâ were really put into perspective for me once I got downtown and started preparing food for homeless Memphians. St. Maryâs has
âWe are going to bike around Midtown with a backpack full of burritos and hand them out to people on the streets who might be hungry.â This was the prediction I gave my friend Katie about our night with the Urban Bicycle Food Ministry, and they turned out to be
Today my Volunteer Odyssey brought me to Porter-Leathâs expansive campus on Manassas Street. I met with my contact Angela in the main building, a beautiful three-story red brick structure that was an orphanage in the 1880s. It was built with funds raised to combat the Yellow Fever Epidemic, and has
âYou never know, you may be the one bright thing that they see today. So be friendly!â That advice came from Melinda, a volunteer I met at the Fig Tree Food Pantry. We were stationed in the front of the building, receiving clients and processing referrals from MIFA, Friends for
As I sit here thinking about my Volunteer Odyssey, I feel as though I am mentally packing my bags and preparing to depart for some exotic location. While physically I may not be headed far from home, emotionally I feel that I will spend a week being transplanted into different