On August 18, 2019, a glorious and beautiful Sunday afternoon, several youth gathered at a residence in Fremont, a city Southeast of San Francisco, to prepare sandwiches that would be delivered to homeless shelters to feed the needy. The idea was to make 100 vegetable sandwiches and 15 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches along with bananas and juice boxes to make it a healthy and nutritious meal for the homeless. The week before the Seva day, the youth coordinated the procurement of ingredients such as bread, cucumbers, lettuce, sun-dried tomatoes, cheese spread, mustard, bananas and juice boxes that would be used to make the meal.

 

Once all the youth and children (future youth) gathered at the residence, they set up tables and covered them with sheets to prepare the sandwiches. Then they organised the ingredients in an assembly-line format with stations to do various things like sorting the bread from the packets, applying cheese spread/mustard, adding cucumbers, lettuce and sun dried tomatoes and eventually wrapping the sandwich in paper. Once packed, the sandwiches were placed in three different boxes and paired with equal quantities of bananas and juice boxes to be distributed to the homeless shelters. Each person received a healthy meal of a sandwich, a banana and a juice box. The prepared food was dropped off by the youth at three different homeless shelters in Oakland, California.