Case Study for FMB Zone 17 Coordinator
I have served as the FMB Zone Coordinator for Zone 17 for the past nine years, and I will continue in this role moving forward.
Let me explain what that entails. What does it mean to be the FMB Zone Coordinator for Zone 17?
I have been part of a community organization called AeS, which I have been involved with for over three decades, initially in Houston, Texas, and now near Katy, Texas.
About nine years ago, AeS announced a program to provide meals in the late afternoon for all community members who signed up. They needed Zone Coordinators and divided the geographic area into several zones. My neighborhood was designated as Zone 17.
I volunteered to be the Zone Coordinator for AeS from day one, and the meal program is abbreviated as FMB. As the FMB Zone Coordinator for Zone 17, I oversee between 15 to 21 families in my neighborhood who collect their meals from outside my house. My responsibilities include scheduling the weekly delivery by assigning each family a day and person responsible for picking meals from the nearby community kitchen and delivering them to bins outside my house.
We communicate through a WhatsApp group where messages about meal deliveries are shared. Once they are notified that meals have been delivered, the families come to pick up their meal. This system has been in place for nine years and will likely continue.
It has taught me invaluable lessons in project management, not strictly IT-related, but involving significant use of IT tools. The goal is to provide timely community meals six days a week, every single week, consistently over these nine years and beyond.
