Mutual Aid Visualization

A Mutual Aid Graphic

The following graphic visualizes the total number of hot meals La Morada distributed month by month along the total number of COVID-19 cases in New York State (source: The COVID tracking project; the total number of new cases includes confirmed plus probable cases).

La Morada hot meals

March 2020: 0
April 2020: 7,800
May 2020: 25,200
June 2020: 24,600
July 2020: 14,400
August 2020: 12,200
September 2020: 11,800
October 2020: 11,800
November 2020: 12,800
December 2020: 14,800
January 2021: 10,700
February 2021: 8,450
March 2021: 10,400

April 2021: 10,400

Total meals: 176,150
Total weight: 352,300 lbs.
Daily average (13 months): 446
Daily average (13 months): 892 lbs.

NY state COVID-19 cases

March 2020: 75,795
April 2020: 228,577
May 2020: 66,398
June 2020: 22,684
July 2020: 21,560
August 2020: 19,742
September 2020: 23,893
October 2020: 48,831
November 2020: 140,500
December 2020: 326,234
January 2021: 436,442
February 2021: 219,789
March 2021: 149,000 in NYC
April 2021: no data

A Mutual Aid Zine

The zine below was created by participants in the Sanctuary and Accompaniment course at The New School in Fall 2021 and is based on the report “Mutual Aid: A Tool for Liberation and Transformation” written by participants in the Sanctuary course at The New School in Spring 2021. (Full credits in the last page of the zine)