From the WES Immigration Team

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What’s the best thing you can do for your immigrant neighbors? 

Many families came to the DMV community to escape dire poverty, war and gang violence.  

The Food Justice Initiative (FJI) does not ask people who are starving about their immigration status. However, nearly all are undocumented.   This is critical because they receive NOTHING from the government.  They are at increased risk for Covid and have limited if any options for medical care. Their incomes have dried up.  In normal times, these folks cook our food, take care of our children and our parents, cut our lawns and clean our houses.  What can we do?

Many of us have neither the time nor the physical strength to load groceries into cars or deliver heavy boxes of food. But we can carry on the life-affirming work of the Food Justice Initiative (FJI) by making a financial contribution.  

Think what you can easily spend on a trip to Whole Foods or Giant.  Maybe you go once a week, maybe more. You feed yourself, your family and the next week the shelves are bare. What would you do if you couldn’t afford to buy more groceries? 

Here is Theresa Vargas’ insightful column from the Post on the Food Justice Initiative. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-will-we-survive-this-people-are-making-heartbreaking-pleas-to-strangers-for-help-while-trump-turns-stimulus-talks-into-a-political-show/2020/10/07/571d2036-08cc-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html

The WES Immigration Team supports FJI with volunteer help, joining others from area churches and Sanctuary DMV. But the most critically important action you can take right now is to make a generous contribution using one of the links shown below.  Checks are welcome.  Without consistent funding, the program would grind to a halt.

Important Note: FJL is an all-volunteer collective. Every dollar you donate goes directly to buying food, diapers, sanitary pads and other essential items.

Xavier, a new volunteer, prepares to deliver potatoes to hungry families.

Ways to Give 

Gofundme.com/f/food-justice-for-immigrant-families (Organizer: Denise Woods)

501C3 link created by FAIRFAX CIRCLE BAPTIST CHURCH: 

  • Text “fairfaxcirclegive” to 77977 and select “Covid-19 Food Drive”
  • Click on this link FairfaxCircleGive and select “Covid-19 Food Drive”

PAYPAL/VENMO: Donate to Sanctuary DMV on our PayPal (James Baldwin/9023) or Venmo @SanctuaryDMV 

CHECKS: Please make out to: Denise Woods c/o Sanctuary DMV. and send to 4370 Argyle Terr NW, Washington, DC 20011.  Put FJI in the tag line.

Thank you,

WES Immigration Team