Our mission & Vision
Our mission is to provide basic essentials to working class families and youth in the South Bay area of Los Angeles so that they can do more than survive.
Our vision is to reclaim the South Bay by creating a people-centered economy in collaboration with our often-overlooked Black and Brown communities. We aim to foster a more self-sufficient and compassionate society rooted in collective care and mutual support.
We want to model what COMMUNITY LOVING really looks like.
“When small communities organize around a love ethic, every aspect of daily life can be affirming for everyone.”
-bell hooks
What we do
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FREE STORE
Our Free Store offers free essentials to anyone, with no requirements and little restrictions. It runs on mutual aid—community members share what they can and take what they need, creating a practical alternative to scarcity while maintaining their dignity.
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Fire Relief
We’re providing critical support to families impacted by the LA wildfires—distributing emergency essentials, securing hotel rooms, and delivering care packages. Now, we’re focusing on visa gift cards for food and gas, meeting the most urgent needs as they evolve. Recovery is a long-term effort, and we’re committed to adapting as we go.
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community resource fairs
Partnering with local groups, we host vibrant events like: Drop Baby Drop, Holiday Loving, and our newest event, South Bay People’s Fair. Free food, music, and workshops turn necessities into celebration—because access should feel abundant, not scarce.
Our Love ethic
These values guide how we as an organization show up for each other, how we make decisions, and build a world rooted in care, accountability, and the relentless pursuit of liberation.
Integrity – Acting with honesty, transparency, and alignment between values and actions, fostering trust and consistency in relationships and community work.
Life-Affirmation – Centering care, dignity, and the flourishing of all people, especially those most marginalized, resisting systems that diminish life.
Interdependence – Recognizing that our liberation is bound together, rejecting individualism, and fostering relationships of reciprocity and mutual support.
Sustainability – Building practices, relationships, and structures that nurture long-term collective care, remaining resilient and regenerative
Accessibility – Removing barriers—physical, financial, emotional, and systemic—so that all people, especially the most marginalized, can fully participate and receive care.
Justice – Holding ourselves and each other accountable with love, prioritizing repair, transformation, and systemic change over punishment, and working toward liberation.
We believe that marginalized people deserve & want to do more than just survive.
We started this org because of the state's lack of aid & compassion during the pandemic as well as witnessing the police violence against our Black & POC neighbors. We are fighting for liberation and freedom and that can’t be done without abolishing capitalism and the police. We believe that marginalized people deserve & want to do more than just survive. That is why we provide the basic essentials needed so that they can focus on truly living and healing. When our basic needs are being met without “earning it”, we can reclaim our free will and autonomy over our bodies, our time, our spaces, and our lives.
We believe in the power of mutual aid because we believe in people power.
We are fully powered by our community & our mutual aid network. We are as grassroots as it comes, starting from our founders’ garage. Behind the scenes, it is run by a team of unpaid local youth volunteers. We do not rely on the government or corporations. Everything we do comes straight from the community, to the community.
