South Tucson Community Outreach distributes free one-time, emergency food boxes to individuals and families on Tucson's south side.
While growing up on the south side and attending Desert View High School, she saw firsthand through clubs and classes how you could make a difference when working together.“I've had that idea in my head for a very long time — since I was a teenager,” she said. “But it was just something in the back of my head and then once I got a little older, after high school, it still was there. But I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do or how to start it.
“When we first started, it was just helping people out,” she said. “It wasn't like, ‘This is a community group or this is a nonprofit,’ it was just helping people out. So that's what kind of sparked the idea, like, ‘All right, let's get other people involved. Let's make this a bigger thing. Let's see if anyone else needs help in our community.’ And that's how it turned into a community group.
The only thing they will ask is how many people currently reside in your household, just so they can make sure they prepare a box with enough food. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio After putting together food boxes, the organization’s volunteers will hand-deliver to the recipient’s house, which Guerrero says helps de-stigmatize asking for food assistance.
“Our kitchen, unfortunately, during the pandemic was closed down and she was paying for storage space at that time and that seemed silly,” Parlin said. “So we started to store all of her items in the kitchen during that time. Then we got to know each other more and so we've collaborated on grant funding for emergency food boxes and holiday boxes and things like that.”
“She does have a very community-minded focus,” Parlin said of Guerrero. “She saw a gap in services for her community and decided that she would fill that. And so I think it's super admirable. She's always happy to take feedback and change things or try to improve things so that the program better serves her community, our community.”
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