Dwayne Levingston, chaplain for the nonprofit Victim Chaplain Association, talks with a Californian reporter about the portable showers the association is supplying to the evacuees of the Borel Fire at the American Red Cross shelter in Tehachapi. “They get out (of the fire zone) dirty, dusty, ashes all over them,” Levingston said. “This provides a little bit of normalcy."
Attendees of a 2022 ribbon-cutting for the Assistance League Operation School Bell mural make their way to the southern wall of the Bakersfield Assistance League building in downtown Bakersfield.
Dwayne Levingston, chaplain for the nonprofit Victim Chaplain Association, talks with a Californian reporter about the portable showers the association is supplying to the evacuees of the Borel Fire at the American Red Cross shelter in Tehachapi. “They get out (of the fire zone) dirty, dusty, ashes all over them,” Levingston said. “This provides a little bit of normalcy."
Steven Mayer / The Californian
Attendees of a 2022 ribbon-cutting for the Assistance League Operation School Bell mural make their way to the southern wall of the Bakersfield Assistance League building in downtown Bakersfield.
The Kern Community Foundation nonprofit website's human services and community benefit section is a treasure trove of resources dedicated to helping people from all walks of life.
Nonprofits listed there — 18 pages' worth — help people with everything from recovering from the effects of gang violence or substance abuse to surviving the first few days after a natural disaster or fire to successfully living with autism or grappling with post-partum depression.
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