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An influx of immigrant families from Latin America means children arrive in SF without a place to sleep. Buena Vista Horace Mann, in the Mission, offers some newcomer students and families cots in the gym, but there’s not enough room for all the families seeking shelter.

If you’re looking for volunteer opportunities this season, we have a guide to ways you can help out with meals, groceries, and more.

Some will have crabs for Thanksgiving, and some will have ice cream. Smitten, the Valencia St. ice cream shop vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti, re-opened yesterday, with help from neighbors, and a new ice cream flavor called “I choose love.”

More soon,

Sara

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Two young girls play on a blacktop and have backpacks on. One is holding a folded-up Razor scooter.

Immigrant children flock to SF schools

“We’re beyond capacity. They’re living on the street, or in their cars.”

A collage of pictures.

Thanksgiving meals and volunteering opportunities

Share a meal, lend a hand.

A woman in a red sweatshirt standing in front of a counter.

Smitten ice creamery reopens after vandalism

“It’s a little cheesy, but it’s delicious.”

SNAP

A tall monolithic building with colorful lights on it.

Monolith

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