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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After celebrating Founders Day of Caring with a donation drive, the Fresno Mission is overwhelmed with ways to springiness back.
Making a difference, 1 donation astatine a time.
From mildly utilized covering items to hygiene products, Desmond Camacho with the Fresno Mission said the donation thrust made a important interaction connected radical needing other help.
"When we look astatine preparing for the twelvemonth and besides the antithetic times that are coming up, the generous donations let for america to spell up and beryllium capable to spell retired and hole for those areas of need," Camacho said.
Camacho said the ngo received astir 4,000 to 5,000 donations and counting.
He said these events are life-changing.
"When radical travel to the mission, sometimes arsenic they are without, their, they whitethorn consciousness little than, what we truly wanted to spell retired and bash is we effort to power that truthful that they tin spot that they are valued, that they are cared for," Camacho said.
That sentiment resonates with Jeffery Gonzalez.
"The acquisition from getting assistance to giving assistance has been 1 that I've never, I've ne'er experienced successful my life," Gonzalez said.
He said the resources the Fresno Mission gave him brought him retired of a acheronian place.
"I'd inactive beryllium homeless, surviving successful an abandoned cars oregon jail. God utilized the ngo to alteration my mind. Changed my thinking, changed my heart. It's changed my attitude, my outlook," Gonzalez said.
Nicole Martinez works astatine EZ/47 Coffee Shop wrong the Mission's City Center.
She gives backmost 1 latte astatine a time.
"To beryllium capable to bargain similar affordable nutrient and to person coffee, that makes them consciousness similar peculiar and conscionable similar human," Martinez said.
For much accusation connected however to donate to the Fresno Mission, you tin visit their website.
