Event blog post 5

I participated in the canned food drive for Doyle Leadership scholarship students. This was on Sunday,November 13th at 2:00 in the afternoon. We were split up into groups by random drawing of numbers. Then we were assigned an area in the neighborhoods surrounding Briar Cliff. We went there with our group and collected food for the food pantry from the houses. I was with a group of a few freshman and then upperclassmen. We totaled probably eight people for our area. The week before the soccer team went around and passed out fliers telling the people we would be coming around to collect so some people had bags of food out on their porch all ready for us. The houses that didn't have stuff out already we had to go knock on their door and ask if they had anything. Our group was in two cars and so the other car got there first and knocked on some door and people didn't have anything to give because hey couldn't afford it so we went do the other half of our area where people were better off. We split up and went door to door. A lot of people weren't home but one guy particularly stuck out to me. He told us that his wife was busy so he had to pass on giving anything. That bothered me because it was clearly an excuse and nit a very good one. Could he not go and get one can himself? If he could afford it then just say that you don't have anything. The person I was walking with agreed with me on this. We all thought it was for a good cause but they should have chosen the area more carefully because part of ours wasn't financially stable enough to give. This situation is similar to when I volunteered for the salvation army. My friend and I rang the bell for an hour at one of the red buckets. We were outside a store entrance in a mall in a very nice part of town. A lot of people gave and we collected over one hundred dollars in the hour we stood there. Some people really didn't have cash on them because a lot of people use a credit card especially around the holiday season and some people just had some change which the scrounged for us. Some people didn't even look at us or avoided walking by us. I thought that wasn't very nice because what's a coupled cents? And if you don't have it you don't have to give but you don't have to avoid us.