Facebook expands community vaccination efforts to help underserved neighborhoods
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Four miles from Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters stands Costaño Elementary School, in East Palo Alto. It's part of the Ravenswood City School District, where all 3,000 students automatically qualify for the free breakfast and lunch program — an anomaly in California — and striking for its proximity to the social media giant, which closed out 2020 with $86 billion in revenues.
Last Friday morning, as roughly 200 students and 100 teachers settled into classrooms for summer school, the line in the parking lot for free meals, groceries and fresh produce quickly grew. Many of the community members who stopped by to pick up food for the weekend, distributed by local non-profits, had no idea that Facebook had organized the program. They were also pleasantly surprised to find a new mobile health center providing COVID-19 vaccines in the same lot. The mobile vaccine truck will be parked at schools in the district on Fridays and Sundays throughout the summer.More Related News