With Thanksgiving and the holiday upon us, it’s time to introduce you to our KGUN 9 Giving Project nonprofit for the month of November, South Tucson Community Outreach.
Talk about your grassroots organization: South Tucson Community Outreach grew out of the pandemic, and out of a real need in one of our communities.
“When the pandemic hit is when I really saw the need in the community I grew up in,” says Desirée Guerrero, the organization’s executive director.
She grew up on Tucson’s south side. In March of 2020, she saw an increasing number of community members there, as well as in the city of South Tucson, in need of basics supplies like groceries.
“I needed to do something to help my neighbors and people in the community make sure they have essential items because we were unsure what was going to happen during the pandemic.”
Guerrero quickly got to work.
South Tucson Community Outreach“It started off as us buying groceries for neighbors and just community members. Then it just grew from there,” she tells me.