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Personal Narrative: One Chain Grocery Store

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To take action I will begin to speak with grocery stores and see if we can come up with a plan, where grocery stores can donate their extra food that is going to waste to certain “food deserts”. Possibly we can make a deal with one chain grocery store particularly. Grocery stores have a great deal of foods that goes to waste, so why not donate to a good cause? Then I will work to make food trucks out of school buses, where we can find volunteers to drive the trucks into low-income areas and offer the fruits and vegetables, as well as easy meals. I am sure we would have no problem finding volunteers, I believe many of my social work friends would be interested in driving the food truck once in a while, and then the average middle-class person

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