2020 — A Year In Review
🌽 MARCH: SANCTUARY FOOD JUSTICE begins with a grocery cart and a dream of ensuring families can feed their children. We hoped to deliver food to 200 families. Fate chuckled and we now have close to 5,000 on our list!
🍐 MAY: Thrive DC dedicates 100’s of lbs of food weekly to us and gives rise to our Saturday distribution and delivers comida to 3,800 doors!
🍠 JULY: Our first of many YARD GIVE-AWAYS: 15 overloaded cars piled high with donated items provided shiny home goods juegos, libros, computadoras, school clothes, car seats, furniture and more to over 220 people.
🍌 AUGUST: Cristina is discovered and becomes our first of 5 powerful PARTICIPANT-LEADERS. Through ICE raids and illness she leads a fierce all-mujeres team that has delivered to a total of 3,720 impacted community members.
🍅 SEPTEMBER: In search of refrigeration for 200 cajas of donated dairy from a Mosque, we connect to the Capital Area Food Bank and become their emergency partner: PRODUCE-TO-THE-PEOPLE grows up from 60 bags to 6,000-15,000 pounds 2x weekly.
🍈 OCTOBER: Teresa Vargas article in Washington Post gives us STREET CRED: Perspective | ‘How will we survive this?’: People are making heartbreaking pleas to strangers for help
🍎 NOVEMBER: We deliver NO TURKEYS! In our quest for culturally appropriate comida, we ask participant-leaders what they want y las respuestas son: #1: rice, beans and maseca, #2. bountiful produce, #3. plucky chickens. More than 700 familías had full & tasty T-day plates!
🍍 DECEMBER: BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS: A 100% volunteer collective delivers food justice to more than 101,345 people and creates a Latinx Santa video telling children they are NOT bad if they don’t get Xmas regalos: https://youtu.be/SGPpxG3mlc8