At 14 years old, I became a founding member of Helping Hands.
It started out by simply putting together nutritious sack lunches for the unhoused in my kitchen. Additionally, I baked and packaged treats for special occasions.
Shortly after, I was granted access to a commercial kitchen. The weekly sack lunches were distributed one by one to the unhoused who live by the Freeway entrances in North Hills.
My Dad taught me his “secret” recipes to make sweet treats for others.
We are growing our outreach areas. More people want to become involved by either donating items or volunteering.
This was the first clothing and shoe distribution event. A lot of items were collected and needed sorting. We went to a few places in Ventura to hand them out. We encountered many disabled Veterans living on the streets. We took the time to listen and learned each person’s interesting story.
