During a food distribution we have people line up, hand their tickets to one person and then go to a different person to receive the food. The tickets are handed out a head of time to people that our partners have identified as the ones that need it the most. This work is done a couple of days before the distribution.
During the distribution I noticed a little girl standing there with a ticket in her hand. I started to take her to get food and some stopped me just in time before I made a huge mistake. They whispered in my ear to “look at what she is holding.” I looked down to her right hand and it was then I realized that she was holding a piece of paper rolled up to look like the a ticket. My heart exploded. I didn’t know what to do, I wanted to help so badly, but I knew that I couldn’t. I tried to find her after to take her somewhere to get her something to eat but I never saw her again.
To the day I breathe my last breath on this earth her face will be burned into my mind and it pushes me to find a solution to the problem of hunger.