African-American Caucus Food Drive Helps Local Families in Need

SEIU Local 721’s Tri-Counties African-American Caucus is committed to enhancing opportunities for SEIU members of African descent, as well as for the entire community. This year, the Caucus collected non-perishable food items at various worksites in Ventura County.
The food and gift card donations went to UFW workers who were recently displaced after their mushroom farm worksite closed.

“When we heard that there had been a lay off at the mushroom farm we decided we had to reach out to our brothers and sisters at the United Farm Workers Union to see if we could help. The African American Caucus was honored to give back to workers who spent so much time doing back breaking work so that we would have the convenience of going to the store and buying food for our families.”
-Lanae Faciane, MFT  , CalWORKS Behavioral Health 

African-American Caucus members and representatives from the United Farm Workers came together on November 25, 2013 to create the food baskets and to distribute them to the families throughout Ventura County. Non-perishable food items were collected from throughout the County including the County Government Center, Human Service Agency offices, the Ventura County Medical Center, a county library site and from the SEIU Local 721 office in Ventura.