Migrants volunteer in community garden as they await placement at local shelters – WGNTV (Chicago)

For the last 15 days, Manuel Moreno and his wife, Laurimar, have been living out of the Chicago Police Department’s 22nd District police station. While they wait for placement in a local shelter, Moreno and a group of men have been helping in the nearby Edna White Community Garden. “Picking up trash, a spring clean-up getting rid of dead plants, putting down mulch,” said Tim Noonan, who works as a mutual aide in the 19th Ward. “It gives them something to do because they’re sitting around all day staring at the walls.”