Tendea Family handing out hope in Baltimore
Tendea Family handing out hope in Baltimore
Many neighborhoods in Baltimore are called food deserts and they’ve become even drier since the coronavirus started.
On Tuesday Elijah Miles and his group of volunteers called the Tendea Family were in the Greenmount community delivering hope and help.
BALTIMORE ARE CALLED FOODDESERTS...AND THE CORONAVIRUSIS ONLY MAKING IT WORSE.TONIGHT A GROUP CALLED THETENDEA FAMILY... WAS OUT INTHE GREENMOUNT COMMUNITYDELIVERING HOPE AND HELP.WMAR2 NEWS EDDIE KADHIM WASTHERE AND SHOWS US HOW THEYARE PROVIDING FOR THEIRNEIGHBORS.Take pkg 15:53:3━15:53:45“Tendea family is Kiswahilislang for hustle.
Hustle isour founding principals.Honor, unity, sacrifice,trust, love, effort” Thefamily name is literal andsymbolic.
Chekesha Brown isthe older sister of thegroup's founder, Elijah Miles.She and her family havecommitted their free time tovolunteer.
Chekesha BrownVolunteer 15:57:1━15:57;30“He truly has an idea andstarts it with his ownpersonal cash.
As soon as heputs the word out thecommunity comes together tostep in.
My husband,myself, mychildren my son.
Littlebrother calls we comerunning” When Coronavirus hitá families already living ipoverty felt it on manylevels.
Elijah Miles TendeaFamily 15:51:5━15:52:12“Alot of people have losteverything because of thisCoronavirus.
People have beenlaid off, cutoff from foodstamps from unemployment.
Weout here giving them groceryso they donanything illegal to feed theirfamilies” Tendea Family hasbeen helping for years.
Thesaw neighbors in need of fooda few weeks ago and starteddelivering it to them.15:58;3━15:58;57“Thispandemic has really made ithard on people.
I know when Ideliver I just feel so good.
Ifeel so good.
When you seepeople you are truly helpingitout here.
It just feels sogood to something for otherpeople” Today they openedfree pop up grocery pick anddonated dozens of bags15:54:4━15:55:04“Weto basically serve ourcommunity as long as we havethe resources to do it, untilthis whole thing is over.Right now we doncommunities to erupt in riotsor looting or stealing orrobbing.
Thatthing that could happen” InBaltimore Eddie KadhimWMAR2news.IF YOU NEED HELP OR WANT TDONATE TO THE TENDEA FAMILY...WE HAVE A LINK IN THIS STORYON WMAR TWO NEWS DOT
