On many of the freedges, the honor system rules are posted in bright colors: take what you need, leave what you don't. The ad-hoc, volunteer-led effort has quickly spread - Nashville, Boston and Oakland among others have them, too. They're stocked with fresh basics like milk and eggs, veggies and fruit, as well as canned foods. area that are helping hundreds of hungry Angelenos get through the week. Today, volunteers LA Community Fridges have helped set up at least a dozen across the L.A.

'It was really incredible, we only had one fridge and it was just overflowing with donations, both, you know, fresh and pantry items,' she says. Within a few days, Vergara and her accomplices had a location, a used refrigerator and food donations. who were thinking about doing this,' she says. 'They connected me with a few different people in L.A. Vergara reached out to the members of the collective who were setting up them up. Free food refrigerators, or 'freedges,' were springing up all over New York as the deadly pandemic fueled a striking rise in wider food insecurity and hunger.

Marina Vergara has been involved in distributing food to Los Angeles' large homeless population for years through her work with a nonprofit that supports the chronically unhoused.īut this spring, she heard about something new. Volunteer Thadeaus Umpster with the anarchist collective In Our Hearts delivering donated produce to community fridges in the Bed Stuy section of Brooklyn.

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