A new hub aiming to providing access to fresh, healthy groceries to local residents who face food insecurity launched Saturday morning in one of Long Beach's most affected low-income communities.
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Food Finders, an organization dedicated to gathering and donating food across cities in Southern California, partnered with the Crossroads Long Beach church at Cherry Avenue to host the upcoming food hub.
Diana Lara, Food Finders executive director, is hoping the container will be ready for use sometime in the second week of April. Crews are currently installing electrical ports to power the container’s refrigerators.
Lara said the refrigerators will allow perishable foods, such as meat and dairy products, to be located within communities that struggle to afford healthy foods something that wasn’t available before.
“The groups that we work with said there was a lack of refrigeration. We said, ‘OK, well we can put this, and it has refrigeration, and it’s close to them, ” Lara said.