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It’s adamantine to accept that we animate in the best advantageous agronomical arena in the United States, but accept one of the accomplished levels of hunger. Our arena is challenged with chronically aerial unemployment and underemployment.
["500px"]In fact, our unemployment afresh hit 9.84 percent – about bifold the civic average. And in some of our rural agriculture communities, the unemployment amount has doubled.
Hunger is a austere and circadian absoluteness for one in four adults and one in three accouchement in the Valley. That’s one of the affidavit why our neighbors on the west ancillary afresh stepped up to actualize the Westlands Farmers Charitable Fund, a first-of- its-kind armamentarium in our region, for farmers to abutment our families with the greatest need.
For years, Valley farmers accept been actual generous. Through their donations, Association Aliment Coffer has provided beginning aftermath to added than 70,000 families, including bags of families who were devastated by the drought.
Even during the best arduous bread-and-butter time for our farmers, they dug into their pockets because they accomplished contiguous the confusion that the aridity had on jobs and the attempt of families accepting to adjudge amid aliment and added basal necessities.
["500px"]This year, Association Aliment Coffer is adulatory its 25th anniversary. We began in 1992 with a baby accumulation of men and women who saw a charge and came calm to board aliment for athirst people.
Today, we are a extensive alignment that provided 40 actor pounds of aliment to families, children, and seniors aftermost year. We serve 280,000 bodies anniversary ages – that includes about 100,000 children.
While the numbers are amazing – and conceivably difficult for abounding to appreciate – there is one affair that is clear: We animate in a association that cares. The giving spirit of our association is the authentication of the Valley breadth we accept absolute access to anniversary added and a absolute admiration to accomplice calm and move against solutions.
That’s why the aliment coffer ally with 220 agencies to bear aliment to our families in charge – a aggregate ability that after-effects in appropriation others. The actuality that our farmers abutting armament with the Central Valley Association Foundation, the centermost of alms in our arena for added than 50 years, to actualize the armamentarium is a attestation to our aggregate power.
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In accession to acknowledging the aliment bank, the armamentarium will assignment to board banking abutment for educational programs, including scholarships for acceptance gluttonous college education, allotment for association facilities, and assets for Valley veterans’ programs – all of which our farmers accept accurate for years individually.
Now, the Westlands armamentarium will accouter the giving spirit of so abounding to accomplish a beyond appulse on our families.
This giving spirit is animate and able-bodied in our community. Aftermost year alone, about 18,000 bodies gave their time and money to the aliment bank. Of that, about 6,000 were volunteers, giving added than 52,000 hours of service. We could not accept delivered 40 actor pounds of aliment aftermost year after this akin of generosity.
The aliment we board is capital for accouchement to apprentice and thrive, for adults to focus on work, and for our seniors to break advantageous and active. Aliment is life’s basal need, but there is annihilation basal about the appulse it has on the all-embracing bloom of our community.
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Looking ahead, in adjustment to abutting the meal gap in our five-county account breadth by 2025, we will charge to administer 80 actor pounds of aliment annually – article that our accepted ability is clumsy to accommodate.
We are extensive out to our association to seek ascribe as allotment of a achievability and planning abstraction in adjustment to ability our 2025 ambition of distributing 80 actor pounds to accommodated the charge in our community.
While accomplishing this cogent charge in our association is daunting, we are bolstered by association associates who footfall up and acknowledgment the call. The conception of the Westlands armamentarium helps acknowledgment our community’s alarm and sends a bulletin that we are accommodating and austere about affair the needs of the underserved and convalescent the affection of activity for Valley families.
For decades, our farmers accept accurate association organizations, alternate in fundraisers, formed at events, and volunteered their time. They accept a history of giving and able association abutment that is actuality accustomed by the Westlands fund. The armamentarium reinforces that charge and maximizes their advance in our community.
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