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In Californias Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to the valley every year to harvest its bounty of table grapes. Currently, the migrants are forced to seek shelter in dilapidated, overcrowded mobile-home parks, or to live in parking lots or in the brush, sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes.
These are people who are visible to drive our economy, but who are invisible when it comes to meeting their needs, Allen told the Riverside Press-Enterprise (March 14, 2004). A leader of The Global Church, a nondenominational religious organization based in Perris, California, Allen was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1984 to 1986 and entered the ministry a decade ago. Despite setbacks and obstacles, she is determined that the project will succeed. This is a clarion call to the faith community, she said. This is part of our commission from God, to address these issues.
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