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Danny Trejo Brings Smiles to Kedren Community Health Center

MICHELE STUEVEN

A small ray of light during a turbulent weekend took place at the corner of East 41st Place and Avalon Boulevard in South Los Angeles, when a honking motorcade of graduating kindergartners and parents circling the Kedren Community Health offices came upon a waving Danny Trejo in the hospital’s parking lot.

With help from the Everest FoundationTrejo’s Tacos set up in the parking lot of the outpatient center for the Department of Psychiatry Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Residency Training Program for Charles Drew University School of Medicine, to hand out 500 free grilled chicken and barbacoa bowls for neighbors and hospital staff. Kedren has aided the underserved community of South Central Los Angeles for more than 50 years and currently is also providing free COVID-19 testing for the area. The Everest Foundation assists medical research in schools of medicine and universities with their Part of the Cure program.

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