Hidden Hunger: In Facebook’s Shadow, Low-Income Seniors in East Palo Alto Share Meals and Community

The East Palo Alto Senior Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, the per capita income is $20,336, which means that a large number of the city’s estimated 1,800 seniors don’t have enough to eat. More would go hungry if it weren’t for the senior center’s executive director, Millicent Grant. “Miss Grant,” as everyone at the center calls her, navigates a patchwork of sources —the local food bank and other nonprofits, corporate funding (including from nearby Facebook), and her own fundraising — to supply her clients with a low-cost breakfast every weekday. “I wish the city would take care of us like we take care of the seniors,” says Grant. Credit: Yalonda M. James, Majula Varghese Read more: https://bit.ly/33NMtEu Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2Svdkii — The San Francisco Chronicle delivers the Bay Area’s best journalism every day. Our mission is to tell the story of San Francisco — the city whose people change the world. We will inform, inspire and provoke while being honest, fearless and startlingly original. You can support our newsroom by signing up for a membership at http://SFChronicle.com/subscribe.