KENDALE LAKES, Fla. — The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians participated in a Thanksgiving Day food giveaway event on Wednesday in the Kendale Lakes neighborhood.
Drivers arrived from far before sunrise at the Kendall Soccer Park, at 8011 SW 127 Ave., and waited in a line that stretched to Southwest 88th Street.
“This year we were unable to make a dinner, and thanks to this, we are going to be able to. The situation is really bad right now,” a mother said about preparing for her family’s celebration on Nov. 27 in Miami-Dade County.
Anthony Rodriguez, the Miami-Dade County Commission’s chairman, was among the event’s volunteers who joined Farm Share, a nonprofit organization combating food insecurity since 1991.
“I don’t come from money,” Rodriguez said, adding that his grandmother “instilled in him” as a little boy the importance of helping others who are less fortunate.
“If she had to give out her plate to give it to a child, to give it to someone else that was hungry, she would do it,” Rodriguez said. “I grew up that way.”
Families in need who depend on the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, are dealing with payment delays after the federal government’s shutdown.
Migrant families who lost their work permits when their temporary protected status ended are also struggling this Thanksgiving season. Venezuelans’ termination was on Nov. 7; Hondurans and Nicaraguans on Sept. 8.
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