Brenda Calvillo, an activist based in Huntington Beach, California, collected over 600 meals, or about 750 pounds of food, for hungry neighbors in her local community. Calvillo organized a week-long food drive in collaboration with Crown Relocations of Los Angeles, the Tattoo Gallery, the community group The Voice, and Move For Hunger.
Between September 28 and October 4, non-perishable food items were collected at three locations: Crown Relocations, Tattoo Gallery, and Parlour e.lev.en in Huntington Beach. All of the food collected went to Beach Cities Interfaith Services of Huntington Beach -- an organization that has been assisting the working poor, veterans, men, women, and children of the surrounding community for 25 years -- to help the nearly 350,000 people affected by food insecurity in Orange County.
