COSTA MESA (CBSLA) – Tons of of automobiles had been parked exterior the IKEA in Costa Mesa on Saturday morning for containers and crates of groceries, diapers and different free provides.
Norma Juarez has a household of 5 to help and stated the weekly giveaway was a patch on her household throughout a financially annoying yr.
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“They helped me lots with the pandemic,” stated Norma Juarez. “My husband hardly works, he solely has a number of hours and I’m unemployed.”
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It is simply one in all eight weekly giveaways from the Energy of One Basis. The group has distributed greater than 2.5 million containers of meals in Orange County because the pandemic started. There aren’t any necessities to obtain the meals.
“When the pandemic hit us, unemployment rose from 2.8 p.c to 18 p.c virtually in a single day, taking our traces from a number of hundred households to 1000’s,” stated Shawnee Witt of the Energy of One Basis.
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The competitors at IKEA on South Coast Drive in Costa Mesa takes place each Saturday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.
