Why are we distributing diapers each month? Every month, we unload about 15,000 diapers for distribution to anybody who needs them. We have mothers with teen and pregnant daughters. We have grandmothers standing in line in order to help their grandchildren. And we have fathers and grampa’s who also make the tripfor diapers. As we set up our registration table
These Kids Belong To All Of Us When we were working with the homeless population a few years ago, we started to see a pattern where people were expressing that they enjoyed the freedom of being homeless. They wanted the escape from housing responsibilities, utility bills and social responsibilities. They liked being homeless. The total statewide California homeless student population
The Best Volunteers Just Appear Like A New Sunrise Jennifer Jesser goes by the name JT, and the simple combination of two initials suits hereasy-going style completely. Her background is in counseling kids, and she spent her career at the California School For The Deaf. When she reached out to our familynonprofit with a volunteer inquiry, we explained that her
It’s easy to dismiss poverty when confronted with people living on the side of the freeways and under overpasses. It’s easy to modify the story in our head and to minimize the impact on our communities because after all, how much does it really impact us? Isn’t poverty a political issue? Like you, these thoughts went through my mind, until
Our family hasn’t discussed diapers in a long time. My own children now have their own toddlers, and my involvement is usually going to COSTCO to buy a couple boxes to have available at our house. I wasn’t until we started distributing diapers through Machado Family Giving, that I educated myself about the extreme financial burden families face when deciding
Machado Family Giving remains committed to food distribution to the poor in the city of San Bernardino. Supplied from various Food Banks, restaurants and grocery stores, several volunteers from different faiths and backgrounds, gather to provide weekly groceries for the less fortunate. If you would like to join us, please send us a message. We’d love to have you also
If you believe in some of the mystical languages and subscribe to the laws of the Universe as well as the Biblical teachings, you would probably not be surprised that our warehouse is never empty. Like the parable of the fish and loaves, the more we give away the more we attract. Some agencies keep a tight reign on their
It shocked us to learn that the children of military families were experiencing food insecurity. According to a 2020 study by the Defense Department, 24% of military families are severely affected by high inflation and the economic downturn which is causing hardship when trying to get the food they need. When we became aware of this, we searched for opportunities
When you see kids walking to school in the early morning, it’s difficult to watch, but when we witnessed them without a jacket, it made us take notice. How many kids needed a jacket in our community? How many children continue to do without the daily essentials? We decided to investigate this and met with several nonprofit leaders in various
When we got the call that an entire family was being considered for Foster Care, it got our attention. Since we have a MFG officer who was in the Foster Care system, we have been attuned to the difficulty children have when they are taken from their home and are required to live with strangers. Many of these kids are
