Alimentando al Pueblo is a food program that aims to provide cultural foods for Mexican and Central American families. It is seeking new funding resources to continue its mission of feeding the people. Co-founder Roxana Pardo Garcia emphasizes the importance of honoring the community's identity, culture, and history through food.
Alimentando al Pueblo (Feeding the People) started in 2020 to provide cultural foods for Latino families in need. It's looking for new funding resources to continue. Alimentando al Pueblo is a food program that provides cultural foods for Mexican and Central American families. Alimentando al Pueblo means "feeding the people" in Spanish. Co-founder and executive director Roxana Pardo Garcia said the pandemic opened her eyes to a problem that needed a solution.
"Why not have a food bank that provides people the food that they eat?" Pardo Garcia asked. "I really wanted to honor my community; let them know there are people out here that really care for them and care for their identity, their culture, their relationship to place, their relationship to their families and relationship to their histories." The goal is to provide healing through community, food and celebration. One of the thousands of families welcomed to the community by Alimentando al Pueblo is Gilma Barahona. Barahona is a wife and mother of two living in Burie
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