Volunteers with Building Healthy Communities have gathered to make food boxes for local families that may be too scared to leave their homes following recent immigration raids across the country.
- Organizers say this isn’t the first time they’ve done something like this.
- Delivering food back in January when boarder patrol was spotted throughout areas of the county.
- In order to reach as many families as possible, volunteers were split into different sections. A group was stationed outside a home in Bakersfield for pickups, another group made its way to McFarland, and a third group making personal home runs for people too scared to leave their homes.
With immigration raids still ongoing throughout the country and rumors circling of ICE agents being in Kern County, many undocumented families have become too scared to leave their homes to even pick up groceries. It’s because of this that a group of volunteers have decided to bring the necessities right to their front doors.
Giving thanks was a common theme for those receiving some much needed help.
“It’s a real stress relief,” said one recipient who had a box of food delivered right to their front door…