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LA Chinatown elders need groceries – these teens go door-to-door delivering them

Lynn Nguyen was inspired to leverage her position as a young adult librarian to address neighbourhood food scarcity.

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洛杉矶唐人街的老人们需要食品杂货——这些青少年挨家挨户地送货上门。

Nguyen (centre) and a group of volunteers delivering wagons of food to Chinatown residents.

Lynn Nguyen had just begun working at the Chinatown Branch Library in Los Angeles, California, the United States in 2019 when she learned that Ai Hoa and G&G markets were shuttering.

As the last two full-service grocery stores in Chinatown, these closures left a gap in food access in the neighbourhood, where one in four residents are above the age of 65 and 30% of households live below the poverty line.

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