We are so excited to bring Claim Our Food Now back in 2024!

In 2022, we launched a new initiative, Claim Our Food Now, to provide consistent community care in the form of food security for NYC Caribbean immigrant families impacted by the threat of deportation. With your help, we successfully launched our first focus group in 2022 and were able to provide 5 families with weekly grocery stipends in NYC.

In 2025, we will continue our work to donate culturally specific and nutritious foods to support family’s immediate needs while creating sustainable community programs to educate, motivate, and unionize our neighbors to abolish ICE and prevent further harm for future generations.

THE WHY

The deportation of family members can cause lasting issues that continue for generations, leading to the diminishment of funds for families. The impact on economic status also directly impacts access to resources like food, causing food insecurity which subsequently weakens physical, emotional, and mental health within immigrant communities. Deportation pushes families deeper into poverty, leading to school aged children going to school hungry, and have deteriorating performance in their academic life. This issue often cascades into the subsequent criminalization of entire groups of immigrants trying to survive by whatever means necessary (Ceciliano-Navarro & Golash-Boza, 168 & Cox & Wallace, 5-6).

97% of deportees are sent back to Latin America and the Caribbean.

44% of deportees are of Haitian descent.

WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW!

With your donations, we will be able to:

re-launch our initiative with another focus group of undocumented Afro-Caribbean students and their families. We seek to provide at-least one family with weekly vouchers for immediate grocery needs for up to 5 months!
form partnerships with other local organizations and communities to establish more food programming in conjuction with our successful Marsha's Closet pop-up
continue to provide consistent community care to immigrant families in NYC facing food insecurity!

Help us get our sustainable program to more families and DONATE TODAY!

Claim Our Food Now

Building towards food sovereignty with Haitian and Caribbean immigrant families facing the threat of deportation in the form of food security.

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