We just exchanged a few emails with Corina who is one of the people working for El Jordan in Santa Cruz. They had been quite busy over the Christmas period putting on a Christmas meal for the poor, homeless and street kids that they call Christmas on the Streets. Basically what they do is prepare food and small gifts and take them out on the streets to the homeless and poverty stricken people of Santa Cruz. This year, they prepared 505 chickens, 200lbs of pork, 900lbs of rice and 7000 potatoes. Thats a lot of spuds to peel.
All the prep work is done by the El Jordan staff and volunteers including some of the students and even younger ones such as the little girl below cleaning the potatoes.
In total, they served 5000 people and ran out of food in the process and gave everyone the best Christmas they could. Puts our Christmas into a little more perspective.
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