San Gabriel 的亚裔青年中心为感恩节募捐餐食：每月向500多户家庭送食品，50美元可供一户完整节日餐
位于加州洛杉矶县 San Gabriel 市的非营利机构亚裔青年中心（Asian Youth Center，AYC）11月12日发出感恩节募捐呼吁，为其服务的低收入与移民家庭筹集节日餐食。该中心以免费、多语言社会服务帮助低收入、移民与处境困难的社区成员。
AYC 的紧急食品计划每月向500多户家庭送出新鲜食品、常备食品与卫生用品，工作人员以粤语、普通话、韩语、越南语、西班牙语和英语提供服务，所送食品兼顾不同族裔的饮食习惯。
该中心列出的捐款用途为：50美元可为一户家庭提供一顿完整的感恩节餐食，100美元可为一户家庭提供感恩节餐食，并让食品供应持续整个节日季。中心说，食品价格仍然高企，移民家庭与长者受影响最大，许多人还难以找到以自己语言提供的服务，或缺少可靠交通。
AYC 还介绍了其长者个案：一名73岁的菲律宾裔长者在2023年因被驱逐失去住所后无家可归，经该中心联合心理健康推广计划获得临时酒店住宿、食物、衣物与鞋子，工作人员在六个月内协助她找到稳定住所，并提供押金、床与床垫方面的财务协助，她最终搬入自己的永久住所。
此外，AYC 以多种语言开办野火防备工作坊，并与南加州爱迪生公司合作提供免费安全资源，帮助低收入与移民社区成员在灾害中保护自己与家人。
（来源：亚裔青年中心）
Asian Youth Center in San Gabriel Seeks Thanksgiving Meal Donations: More Than 500 Families Served Monthly, $50 Covers One Household's Holiday Meal
The Asian Youth Center (AYC), a nonprofit based in San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, California, issued a Thanksgiving appeal on November 12 seeking donations for holiday meals for the low-income and immigrant families it serves. The center provides free, in-language social services to low-income, immigrant and at-risk community members.
AYC's Emergency Food Program provides culturally relevant food to more than 500 families each month, including fresh groceries, pantry staples and hygiene items, with staff serving in Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish and English.
The center listed the uses of donations as follows: $50 gives one household a complete Thanksgiving meal, and $100 gives one household a Thanksgiving meal and keeps groceries coming through the holiday season. AYC said grocery prices are still high, immigrant families and seniors are hit hardest, and many struggle to find services in their own language or to get around without reliable transportation.
AYC also described a senior case: a 73-year-old Filipino senior who lost her home to eviction in 2023 and became homeless received temporary hotel housing, food, clothing and shoes through the center's United Mental Health Promoters program. Over six months, staff helped her find stable housing and provided financial assistance for her security deposit, a bed and a mattress, and she moved into a permanent home of her own.
AYC also offers in-language wildfire preparedness workshops and, in partnership with Southern California Edison, provides free safety resources to help low-income and immigrant community members protect themselves and their families when disaster strikes.
(Source: Asian Youth Center)
来源：亚裔青年中心
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