Organizers of Feed the Families of Metro DC carry supplies into UMD Memorial Chapel Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, as volunteers check in for their shift. Feed the Families was an interfaith service project sponsored by Terps Against Hunger and the chapel. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
Emily Brothman, president of Terps Against Hunger, talks about food insecurity and instructs volunteers on how to assemble food packages for Feed the Families of Metro DC, an interfaith service project sponsored by Terps Against Hunger and UMD Memorial Chapel. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
The altar area of the Main Chapel is converted to workstations where volunteers measure, fill, weigh and seal bags of nutrient-rich meals designed to combat food insecurity in Washington, D.C. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
Volunteers wearing hairnets and gloves staff an assembly line as part of an interfaith service project, Feed the Families of Metro DC, at UMD Memorial Chapel Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
As participants continue to bag meals, a volunteer restocks the workstations. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
Tiffany Melgar, a junior criminal justice major, organizes the filled bags waiting to be weighed and sealed. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
Senior Hannah Shraim, left, and juniors Brittney Antwi, middle, and Laura Layanwu, right, weigh and seal filled bags of food to be boxed and loaded onto a pallet. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
A volunteer prepares boxes to hold completed food packets at the Feed the Families of Metro DC service project at UMD Memorial Chapel Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
As the evening wears on, discarded gloves and spilled grain are all that’s left of a once-busy workstation, as the remaining volunteers box up the filled food bags. Project participants were scheduled for one of two shifts: 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. or 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. By 9 p.m., a handful remained to see the project through to the end. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)
Volunteers place the sealed boxes on a cart in order to keep the assembly line going. The boxes are then stacked securely on a pallet for shipping via truck. Volunteers packaged 19,440 shares of food, which was a record high for the event. (Mary Lopez/Jour 604)