Sandwich Making

Over the past five months I have been making sandwiches. Once a month on a Friday morning before school I would meet in the school district offices and make sandwiches.

These sandwiches were for the 363 Days Food Program. This organization was started by Allen Law. The name 363 came from a conversation he had with a board member. He said “Many organizations offer meals on Thanksgiving and Christmas. They can have those days. We’ll handle the other 363 days of the year”. He spends 363 days, or rather nights, a year going around the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul giving out sandwiches. On any given night there are an estimated 7,000 homeless people in the Twin Cities and over 2,200 are children under 17. Shelters and soup kitchens shut down in the early evening and if you missed that last night meal, you are out of luck. That is why Mr. Law starts his deliveries at nine at night and continues until the next morning. Mr. Law delivers an average of 1600 sandwiches a night to individuals living on the street.  

All of these sandwiches are being made by schools and organizations around Minnesota. All of the food is donated by various people and places. Kowalski donated most of the food we used over the past five months.  We made sandwiches with ham, cheese, turkey, or bologna.  Our goal was to make 150 sandwiches each session.

Learning  that there are so many homeless and hungry people in the Twin Cities made me feel a little overwhelmed and sad.  It is good to know that there are people like Mr. Law who work so hard to help others.  It feels good to know that the sandwiches we made would make a difference in someone’s life.   

Audrey Wulfing

2014 Junior Miss Inver Grove Heights