Canstruction: Reading Around the Camp Fire

This past weekend, several of CalSERVES AmeriCorps members gathered at Coddingtown Mall to participate in this year’s Canstruction event.

 Canstruction is a design and build competition where participants create structures made out of canned food. The mission of Canstruction is to bring awareness about and canned foods to, the men, women, and children in our community who need food assistance.

Wanting to stay true to the CalSERVES vision and mission, our team built a structure that displayed four children sitting around a camp fire reading books.

 
In total, over 700 cans (480 of which were donated by Whole Foods Market) were used to build our structure.

 The structures will be on display at Cooddingtown Mall until April 27. All the canned food used in building the structures will be donated to the Redwood Empire Food Bank.

By: Jacquelene Bennett, AmeriCorps Literacy Content Leader