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Southeast Texas Food Bank, Seafarers' Center offer help to Coast Guard families

Community members can help by volunteering time, food or money to help the Coast Guard families.

BEAUMONT, Texas — As the government shutdown continues toward the one-month mark, families of government workers are getting desperate. 

Some are wondering where they'll get their next meal.

"People are really outraged that these men and women are not able to receive their paychecks," Doreen Badeaux, Board President of the Port Arthur Seafarers' Center said. 

The center is partnering with the Chamber of Commerce to help Coast Guard families who missed paychecks on Tuesday.

"This is something we felt was an injustice, and we want to show our support. we are asking people to step up the tune of twenty two thousand dollars, Badeaux."

The money that's collected will be donated to the Coast Guard Foundation, while will disperse it to those in need.

The Southeast Texas Food Bank is also pitching in.

"Need is huge and this is a unique situation...we're facing," Executive Director of the Southeast Texas Food Bank Dan Maher said.

He says they're also working to get food to those families affected.

"In this moment of crises you have a legitimate need, you have a right to access food and other resources in the community," Maher said.

All of this being done to show these families they are not alone.

"At least to know that the community cares, it does so much more than people may think," Badeaux said.

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