Feed the Need gives away shoes and gifts for Christmas | Local News

BRAWLEY — Brawley’s Feed the Will need non-income organization hosted their 7th once-a-year Christmas Get together on Friday, December 23, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.  

Feed the Will need welcomed any individual in need to have to be a part of the entertaining and acquire a prize or just take some gifts with them.  

Embellished tables stood in front of the center on the corner of 8th and Main Road in downtown Brawley.  

Two associates from the heart performed guitar and sang Christmas tracks though absolutely everyone loved tamales and dessert.  

Within the centre, Rosalind Servin, the founder of Brawley Feed the Need, shared how this Christmas social gathering has come to lifestyle above the years. She stated how each individual yr the centre has experimented with to give absent something for those people in want, this kind of as stockings full of toiletries.  

This 12 months, volunteers handed out goodie luggage, blanket scarves, socks, and footwear.  

“The people that indication up or that I know are homeless and arrive here ordinarily are getting manufacturer new sneakers. We questioned for their shoe measurements. I used to phone it the Candy Cane shoe push for the homeless. I place sweet canes on a Christmas tree and the canes have tags with the persons identify and their shoe measurement. Somebody can grab the cane and deliver the sneakers so we can hand them out today,” reported Servin.  

The middle was also handing out raffle tickets for men and women to earn reward cards and inside of just one volunteer was supplying totally free hair cuts.  

Brawley Feed the need is a faith-based mostly non income business that offers back to those people who are having difficulties in buy to remind them that they are not alone. Rose Mary Sanchez, a fantastic buddy of Rosalind, shared her story.  

“I was homeless but Rosie and her mother would like me and hug me and I was never ever employed to that, they in no way stated just about anything undesirable to me. No a single suggests everything poor about nobody listed here, if we see a person in require and we do not choose them, we are all just a household here,” reported Sanchez. 

Brawley Feed the need Xmas celebration was stuffed with a welcoming air. Lots of wants have been satisfied for the duration of the afternoon.  

“It is a blessing to eat and consider a shower. The centre has been rising and there are extra folks who want to be below but they are as well shy to stop. I employed to be embarrassed to be homeless but now I am proud that I came up and that would not have occurred if it was not for folks like Rosie and this centre,” claimed Sanchez.