These farmworkers are struggling without work. Typically, farm work ends in Nov. and begins around March and April, but after months of rain and flooding from Pajaro's levee break, work hasn't even started.
"Todavía no nos ha llamado para ingresar al trabajo," she said her boss still hasn't called them to return to work and she's unsure when she should expect that call.
"It just goes to show where the community is as far as need, that 1,000 people came out to an alleyway in Watsonville to receive food and other help," Ortiz said."They want to be responsible for themselves just as much as you or I do and they can't do that right now because there is no work," Ortiz said.Ortiz said for people who do not qualify for FEMA or state or city assistance they rely on small nonprofits like theirs.
Friday's event got so large the nonprofit will have to hold their monthly distribution event at a different location next month.
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