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Support for Mutual Aid Came and Went, But the Need Is Still There

Ericka Cruz GuevarraCarlos Cabrera-LomelíMaria Esquinca
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Volunteers help distribute food boxes to community members during a Guerrer@s de la Ciudad food distribution event at HOMEY, a non-profit focused on social and community justice issues, in San Francisco's Mission District on March 5, 2022.

In 2020 call outs for mutual aid donations flooded social media,  and people responded with an abundance of money, food and time. Two years later, interest and support has waned while the needs have not gone away. As government aid like the child tax credit and stimulus checks expire, organizers across the Bay look at filling in the gaps.

Guest: Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, community engagement reporter for KQED

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