Impact

Beginning in the Spring of 2020 and continuing through 2023 EFAM sought to build a framework that could support unhoused, formerly incarcerated, poor, and at risk individuals with access to food, natural medicines, safe shelter, and pathways to healing from addiction. Our food reclamation and juicing operations provide residents with opportunities for structure and purpose through skill building and pride through direct service and provisions for their communities.

EFAM’s on the ground efforts are comprehensive and we work individually with residents, seeking to understand and adapt to their unique conditions. In this way our work seeks to address the lateral violence brought on through lifetimes of systemic failures and oppression. Through healing the individual we heal the collective. While EFAM’s food recovery efforts are ambitious, we share a hunger for connection. This shows itself in the way the houseless and criminalized sit on the margins of our communities, their personal stories out of sight, and inaccessible to everyday people. Through volunteer opportunities, we create pathways for resourced individuals to explore the obscurity and confusion surrounding these conditions and instead contribute to meaningful acts of solidarity, redistribution, and social cohesion.

Over the course of 2024 we invite individuals and donors to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign, and help us to expand our operations teams. As Alameda County StopWaste grantees, we are one of 88 organizations contributing to 9.8 million meals recovered. We’re grateful to be on track to meet our goals for 2024 and hope that you will consider supporting us in our efforts.