Tucson, AZ (January 14, 2025) —During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Flores family of Si Charro! Restaurants and Flores Concepts launched a food funding community program called Tamales for Heroes. This initiative began with them donating over $10k dollars’ worth of tamales and then going live with a website (www.tamalesforheroes.com) for further crowdfunding resources, providing thousands of heat and served handmade tamales from the family’s Carlotta’s Kitchen USDA division for Tucson’s first responders and health care workers throughout the community.
Today, with the overwhelming fire crisis in California decimating Los Angeles and surrounding communities, the Flores family who have roots in So. California, are once again launching the Tamales for Heroes program by donating over some 3600 plus handmade Carlotta’s Kitchen tamales to the Los Angeles community via their partnership with Shamrock Foods of AZ.
And, as they did during Covid, they are re-launching the www.tamalesforheroes.com website so that anyone interested can help crowdfund further gifts of tamales to those in need as this crisis will surely have the LA community struggling for an extended period of time. Shamrock Foods, the distribution partner of Carlotta’s Kitchen, has committed to helping deliver the tamales in refrigerated trucks to such community organizations as “Hope The Mission” (www.hopethemission.org) and others as time develops…