The Event

When I first thought about making this event I thought that it was going to be like the previous times I've given food to people on the streets with my church. But this experience was entirely different. The event was divided in two days because it was a lot of food to be made and delivered on the same day in total we delivered 78 meals to people in need.

Sadly due to a zero hour that caused severe public transport problems,protests, firefights and barricades on several streets of Caracas: @fakj94 @mufasatoldyou @slidex could not participate physically on the event. But they helped a lot with the logistics of the event and I'm grateful to have them on the team!

The event itself began on Wednesday 19/07/2017 and we were only three people delivering food on the streets. @daniconejito, my friend Diego and myself.

We started our quest with a typical tropical welcome, a tropical monsoon, it hit the city and heavy rains was to be expected all day long, boy did it rain. It poured for about 5 hours straight and we managed to get to @daniconejito 's house when it had just started raining at around 10:30 AM. There we made all the food for that day, and we begin delivering it at 3 Pm when the rain had stopped.

From left to right @thatmemeguy @daniconejito Diego (not yet on steemit)

We finished at 6 PM after a long afternoon of searching for people in need under the rain.

Thank you for the cookies @daniconejito!

2nd day

The second day of the event was friday 21/07/2017 @siersod @josmary @thatmemeguy and Diego began packing the food pretty early at 10 Am and we left at 1 Pm, this time we learned that in order to preserve the heat in the food we should pack it and give it as fast as possible. We began giving the food just around lunchtime and then something incredible happened.

We saw a group of 5 people gathered outside a church, that day the church offered free soup for everyone, and they seemed to have been left out. We went and offered them food, they were happy to accept it and then the 5th guy went inside the church and told other people: 3,4,5,10,15... And then a crowd of around 15+ people gathered around us asking us for food. They were so many that on those 5 minutes we delivered 29 meals. It was a shocking experience but also a revealing one, the hunger in Venezuela is real.

That afternoon we finished in one hour, we gave all those 41 steem-meals in less than 70 minutes. With 35 meals of the first day it makes a total of 78 meals!

I am really thankful with the community of steemit! Without you it wouldn't have been possible.

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