LOS ANGELES–To help area homeless, 20 Los Angeles Federal Credit Union (LAFCU) employee volunteers served lunch to 250 homeless at The Midnight Mission (TMM) in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles. The volunteers also helped prepare food for that night’s dinner and LAFCU’s charity donated $2,500 toward the purchase of future nutritious meals. Since 2006, the credit union has served 3,000 meals to the local hungry living on Skid Row, where one in three residents are homeless.
Now more than a century old, TMM offers emergency services, 12-step philosophy, job training, education and work programs that offer a bridge to productive lives and the structure that homeless need to rejoin their communities. Today, the agency annually provides hundreds of thousands of nutritious meals to homeless through its daily meal schedule, which serves its general population and special guest visitors and their families.
Below, John Dea, Los Angeles Federal Credit Union (LAFCU) President/CEO (far right, holding check), was joined by other LAFCU employees when he presented a $2,500 check to David Noriega, Assistant Volunteer Coordinator, at the Mission. Later, the employees volunteered to serve lunch at the Mission to 250 homeless from the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles.