Colonia Progresso

Filomena Romero Sandoval, 84, gives a quick tour of her Mexicali home located in Colonia Progresso, to volunteers assisting the Lay Brothers of the Poor to provide care packages filled with basic essentials to residents of various poor communities in Mexicali on Saturday. (Eric Miller)

Volunteers from the Imperial Valley venture into Mexicali and parts further south to distribute toys, blankets and especially food to impoverished people for whom the hardships continue, even during the holiday season.

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