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Various local organizations have partnered together to create a program that takes food from schools and restaurants and gives it back to the community.

"Everyone thanks me for what I do, but I didn't do anything," says Sherry Morrow. "It's all my beautiful friends."

Edward Robinson, founder and CEO of The Social Servant, says the idea for the mobile clinic started as a project for a CSUB course in clinical social work.

This year's PIT Count found that a little under 2,000 people in Kern County experience homeless. This is more than last year, but more of those people are sheltered now.

Wednesday marks the annual Shoes for Our Homeless Shoe Drive benefiting the men, women, and children at the Open Door Network formerly known as the Bakersfield Homeless Center.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and local organizations and advocates are teaming up to show survivors of sexual assault that they're not alone.

According to Ward 4 Councilman Andrae Gonzales, Bakersfield is building more affordable housing units now than at any point in the past decade.

The Open Door Network is an emergency shelter helping homeless people find stable and independent community living. Now there is a better idea of its reach in Kern County.

“There should be no violence and no fear for your life or for your safety when you're engaged in a committed relationship,” says Open Door Network CEO Lauren Skidmore.

"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril." - William Lloyd Garrison, 19th century abolitionist.