Riverside County has assisted over 2,800 migrants traveling through the Coachella Valley in the past, now the county is prepared to do so on an ongoing basis. Over 15 people have fled their home countries and are looking for help. “It was probably around four or five families, seven kids from the ages of five […]
For ten years the Galilee Center has been a crucial resource for our East Valley. In this pandemic their needs are greater than ever to provide food, clothing, housing assistance and now face masks. Marketing Executive Mary Hamilton and her husband Michael Proctor, Vice Chair of the La Quinta planning commission, recently came to the […]
Nearly 700 food baskets were given out at Galilee Center’s food distribution this Thursday. However not every family went home with food as the number of families looking for assistance was triple that number. A line of vehicles formed along Hammond Rd. in Mecca and was estimated to reach the North Shore community, which is […]
The Galilee Center will soon be in need of new funding after one of their major donors cites “philosophical differences” as a reason not to renew the donation. Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad believes the shelter’s mission has changed after they housed Central American asylum seekers instead of the migrant farmworker that seasonally come to the valley. Ingebrand-Pohlad […]
The overnight shelter by the Galilee Center may close its doors after the loss of $150,000 from its main donor through what they are calling a “philosophical difference”, however, the founders are not seeing this as a loss, instead, as an opportunity to grow their list of donors. The Galilee Center in Mecca is a […]
Boxes at the Galilee Center in Mecca are all marked up with hundreds of toys ready to find a home on Christmas Day. The center is expecting more than a thousand children on their 8th annual toy giveaway, and each child will get 2 or 3 presents. Lupe Torres is the office manager at the […]
La Quinta, CA After a car crashed into a Baskin Robbins in La Quinta, the store owner is turning a bad situation into an act of charity. It’s not something you plan for and when a car came crashing through the Baskin Robbins in La Quinta, store owner Cari Freeman was at a loss for words. "We’re pretty sure […]
