Tag Archives: United Way of Southern Cameron County

VITA Provides Free Tax Prep Services

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Texas Southmost College Accounting Technology students are currently offering free tax preparation services via the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. For almost 20 years, TSC has partnered with the United Way of Southern Cameron County to offer the VITA service. Students from TSC’s Special Topics in Taxation course are now assisting individuals and families in the Rio Grande Valley. “Every year this experience proves to be a great opportunity for…

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Solidarity & Unity Needed to Contain COVID

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Nurses and medical staff at Rio Grande Regional Hospital receive free meals from area businesses as a way of saying thanks for their work. (Courtesy)

Yolanda Carrillo and her staff of chaplains at hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley have seen heartache and felt its pain in recent months.  The outbreak of COVID-19 has consequently separated the sick from their loved ones with the denial of hospital visitations. Hospital chaplains have stepped in best they can. They are waving hellos and also making signs of prayer through windows looking into intensive care units.  The Valley…

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Getting Stuff Done To Help Those In Need

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A nonprofit executive like Traci Wickett has connections everywhere in a community.  The president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Southern Cameron County heard from Brownsville’s Good Neighbor Settlement House about growing needs they were seeing as furloughs and unemployment set in with the outbreak of COVID-19. The demand for served meals and emergency pantry items doubled in less than one week in early April.  “Unemployment sent…

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