#Repost blacknews ... At just 21 years old, Miriam Haregot, a Black woman from South Central Los Angeles, California, turned her desire to serve her community into a movement. She founded the P.A.C.K. Project, which stands for People Advocating Community Kinship. Alongside her uncle, she has helped convert properties into spaces that a nonprofit can use to provide shelter. Through the organization’s monthly Feed the Homies program on Skid Row, volunteers have distributed more than 10,000 meals The initiative has grown into very resourceful organization that provides food, housing support, education, and resources to some of the city’s most vulnerable residents. Her work carries special significance in South Central and on Skid Row, communities where Black residents have long been disproportionately affected by homelessness and housing instability. “It feels good to be able to provide people a sense of humanity because the world just lacks it, you know, so much so. It’s good to be the c...