Boxing champ Jose Ramirez is donating thousands of care packages to field workers
is one of the best boxers in the world, but he used to work long hours in a field ... and he tellsWe talked to the 27-year-old Olympian and undefeated light welterweight champion about his quest to donate thousands of care packages full of supplies ... for immigrant workers in Cali.
"Those boxes are going to farmworkers, people who continue working in the fields. As you know, they feed the world. People here in central California, they do 58% of all the produce we eat nationally." "I wanted to do this gesture because it came to my attention that once COVID-19 really started to spread fast, people got really panicked so they started going to store and buying everything off the shelves."
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