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Food Vendor Coordinator <br />- Works with food vendors to make sure proper food handling permits are used <br />Artesania Vendor Coordinator <br />- Works with merchandise vendors and tells them where to go <br />Food Line Coordinator <br />- Works with staff and volunteers to set up canopies and distribution areas, <br />including separating products, coordinating storage and packaging. <br />Attendees Coordinator <br />- Works with volunteers to organize the line of participants, ensuring that it stays <br />orderly and does not obstruct public sidewalks or other areas. <br />Truck Unloading Coordinator <br />- Works with a team to unload trucks and organize products for the Food Line <br />Coordinator and their team. <br />Event Coordinator <br />- Coordinates among all coordinators to ensure areas are properly staffed, <br />communication is clear, and the event is running smoothly. <br />2. Proposal shall include details of the target population <br />UABF has a long history of serving undocumented residents, mixed status families, and <br />immigrant communities in Santa Ana. We have provided food distribution events to low-income <br />and working poor communities in the Logan, Townsend, Lacy, Minnie St, Myrtle, and Santa <br />Anita neighborhoods, among others These communities have large proportions of members <br />who work in low-income service industries and in agriculture, where workers are <br />disproportionately undocumented, have precarious employment, experience low wages and <br />discrimination, and lack benefits and safe working conditions. <br />We are particularly targeting families who live in apartments and households with multiple <br />families living in one home. Due to skyrocketing rents in recent years and the fact that Santa <br />Ana has one of the highest rents and house prices of North Orange County cities, many <br />residents must pay 60% or more of their income for their housing or "double up" with other <br />families in a single unit, leading to overcrowding and its accompanying challenges.. High <br />housing costs and low wages put families in precarious situations. Sometimes seniors have to <br />choose between paying rent or paying for life saving medications, parents have to choose <br />between paying rent and buying fresh foods, and college students and graduates must remain <br />with their parents because they can't afford to rent on their own. By providing the basic needs of <br />each family, a plate of fresh and healthy food on their table, it will help ease their burden. This <br />then may allow young people to save for a car or for first -and -last months' rent to secure an <br />apartment, allow families to pay their rent on time without the added stress or damage to their <br />credit, and give seniors and disabled residents a much needed respite from their expenses. <br />