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Just In Time For The Holidays 2025
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JIT Farmers Market Serves Community to Youth
Fighting Food Insecurity One Donation at a Time!
Just in Time participant and work assistant Summer Lloyd helps arrange donated food items ahead of the Farmers Market. Participants like Summer are a perfect example of how we ARE the community we serve!
November 14, 2024
Upcoming events
November 14: JIT Thanksgiving Dinner Celebration
November 16: My Life, My Story Men’s Cohort Celebration
November 18: USD Focus Group on Transitional Services for Foster Youth
November 20: Rise to Resilience Ceramic Celebration, Thanksgiving event
November 21: New Volunteer Welcome
It takes a community to feed a crowd! Last week, with the help of collaborative partners and volunteers, Just in Time transformed our office HUB into a “Farmers Market” providing pantry items to young people in our community.
More than 50 participants showed up, many of them bright and early, before work or school, to fill up their grocery bags. There was no limit to what they could take, and, in some cases, JIT volunteers even picked transportation challenged youth up from their apartments and delivered them back again with groceries in-hand – JIT Volunteer Ken Garnier drove from his house in North County to Chula Vista to pick up a participant for Farmers Market shopping. It was the youth’s first ever time visiting the JIT office in person.
Youth were able to shop a wide variety of items – canned beans, tuna, chicken, pasta, flour, sugar, diapers, canned vegetables, sparkling water, chips. They were even able to shop for clothes, the majority of which were dontaed by JIT participant Sarah Yahya.
“When I heard that Just in Time was having a Farmers Market, I felt like I had to come. I live close to to the office so it’s easy for me to get here. The money I can save on groceries is great because I can turn around and use that on other things, like rent or gas.” ~ Kory, Just in Time Participant
We Get By With Help From Our Friends!
