About Us
Basic Needs Foundation, Inc. was founded on March 18, 2009 by Ha Adolfo. We believe Food Security is a Basic Right!
Basic Needs Foundation, Inc. is a registered 501 (C) 3 Non Profit organization with EIN #26-4498035. We are based in Los Angeles County, Southern California.
We provide food for homeless people who live in their vehicles with their children and pet food for their pets.
By providing pet food to low income people, many pets are saved from being abandoned by owners who cannot afford to feed their pets anymore.
We are a group of non paid volunteers who come together to help a specific segment of homeless people. These people live in their vehicles with their children, and pets as their last option.
We have seen a remarkable increase in surrendered animals due to the rise in foreclosures, and evictions. Our organization provides pet food that helps families in our community stay together with their companion animals during these hard economic times.
Feral cats result from the offspring of cats that were once owned and then abandoned. As a result, the kittens are not properly socialized to humans and become feral. We provide cat food to feeders to feed these feral cats.
As a community, we can end homelessness, even in deep recession. We work on one thought: "If it's not us, then who?"
Basic Needs Foundation, Inc. does not receive any city, county or government funding. Our funding and food supplies come entirely from donations, and fund raising.
A short history
We were originally called "Rescuer's Helper" and led by Ha Adolfo. We have helped different animal rescue groups since 2000 to accomplish various tasks.
On February 25, 2007, Rescuer's Helper helped organize a third
trap/neuter/release (TNR) for 75 feral cats in San Pedro, California with a mobile clinic from Western University of Health Science - The College of Veterinary Medicine.
In July of 2007, Rescuer's Helper was asked to secure cat food for over two thousand feral cats.
Demand for people and animal donated food increased by thirty percent in the first quarter of 2009. Rescuer's Helper then filed for nonprofit status under the name Basic Needs Foundation, Inc.
Mission Statement
We provide food for homeless people who live in their vehicle with their children and pet food for their pets.
We also provide pet food for low income people, and cat food for feral cats.
We rescue homeless pets and find them new homes, when their homeless owners can no longer take care of them.
Background
A segment of new homeless people who have minimum wage jobs. They can't afford to have a home, because minimum wage isn't a living wage.
Food banks are full of newly poor professional folks with children in tow. They live in their vehicles with their children and pets.
Many animals are abandoned, because their owners can not afford to feed their pets.
Basic Needs Foundation believes people, pet owners with economic challenges, and feral cats, should not go to sleep hungry, because food security is a basic right.
