Loving our LINDA VISTA Community family empowers us all

We have been here 5 generations, building this beautiful huge community family. Now is time to share our Linda Vista Family!

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Keeping The Family Together

OUR FUTURE

Our children are our future. They are growing more everyday and we want to set up programs and activities that helps them grow the best ways possible. We want to make sure we water their roots with creativity, good energy, knowledge of self, healing, self-esteem, tutoring, good healthy eating, healthy habits and so much more.

OUR JOURNEY

The Linda Vista Family Foundation was started in 1985 by a group of community members who recognized the need for a local organization dedicated to helping individuals in need like a huge family. Since then, we have grown into starting up a thriving nonprofit, serving hundreds of individuals each year.

The Linda Vista Family exists to build and maintain a family tight unity in our community. We are like a family where each one teaches one in hopes to reach one. We are here to create lasting solutions to poverty, mental health, drug addiction, gang banging, social injustice and other domestic issues. To serve individuals and families in a less fortunate position. Creating a sharing caring community unity through genuine community service.

They say "It Takes A Village" and The Linda Vista Family are the village people providing hand ups and help outs leaving no family members left behind.

OUR PAST

The Linda Vista Family has been around since the 1941 housing boom 3000 houses 300 jobs. This big town boom started the once upon when our great grandparents met each other and their kids met and made our parents then we made our kids and now our kids are making futures. It is really important to empower and entertain our elders. We want them to know we appreciate their sacrifice in our story we want to know our history straight from the OGs. We want to make programs that shine the light on our elder hometown heroes and create activities for them that can leave us amazing community family memories.

Kushinda Drum & Dance

Back in 1982 the founder of Kushinda African Drum & Dance Troupe Azaam Appling AKA Brother Butch started a small drum circle playing bongos and met an African brother named Ibu from Senegal. Ibu started teaching Brother Butch Senegalese Drum and eventually Senegalese Dance as well. By 1992 Brother Butch had purchased African Drums and taught drum playing to the Linda Vista Family and started up class every Thursday night at the LV Rec. We got a teacher from Linda Vista that had learned across town with the Bomani Drum & Dance class. Our class became almost church to the family and visitors and each one teach one movement began. We will continue to pass along our history through drum & dance. We are making a video that we can watch with our kids learn and teach our kids and they can show their kids and Kushinda will never fade away. We are also opening classes back up this year!

Arts & Creative Corners

We will be giving our creative community the tools to express their creativity. We will be setting up programs for all ages for our families artists, painters, sculptors, graffiti artists, sketch artists, digital artists, photographers, producers, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, singers, rappers, beat boxers and so much more.. This will help cultivate the communities creative bond that can sprout out successful artists that will represent Linda Vista Family in an amazing way and make our mothers proud

Aint No Party Like The LV Party

We have been working hard out here to putting food on the table, roofs over our heads, lights on in the house, gas in the cars, clothes on our backs and shoes on our feet, and we deserve to celebrate when life gives us a moment. We are here and we love to party in honor of our family's highlights & accomplishments. We also like to come together to help lift our family through lifes trials & tribulations through dinner food family love, music and good vibes. We will throw more concerts and events made to create smiles, positivity, and amazing lv family memories.

Bringing The Hood To The Woods

Back in 1990 we started to bring Linda Vista Families and young adults up to the Redwoods to get an amazing unforgettable experience to share amongst one another and tell their future family. Everyone gets a small sample of how powerful God is and how big this world truly is. They get to see how much bigger this world is besides, just Linda Vista, San Diego, or even besides California one day. It is extremely humbling being able to surrounded by these humongous trees that are marvelous. This and other activities and the connections that they get with the Earth and connect with their camp mates will positively impact their lives. A nice chunk of the kids that we took to the woods have grown out to be some upstanding young men and women. Their minds have been expanded for further than just these concrete jungles we see every day in the normal, setting in the city. They appreciate the hometown more for its civilization, but they will never forget or regret the experience he had in the redwoods. We are going to start heading the community youth at least once a year soon.

Linda Vista Family Reunion

" We all loved Melinda, and we all know how much the reunion meant to her. As soon as one was finished, she was thinking about how to make the next year better. She always loved the LV community and felt enormous pride each year that we were able to bring everyone together without it being for a funeral and also to donate thousands of dollars to the youth programs at the rec. center."

Lori Appling-Walker

The Linda Vista reunion started off as "Reggae On The Hill" in Linda Vista where we bring the vibe from reggae on the river in Humboldt County to Linda Vista. Mr.Appling would bring big named bands out to Linda Vista. Melinda picked it up after her husband passed away and turned it into a Linda Vista family reunion. We’re all of the people that grew up in the Linda Vista since 1941 came together at his one time a year without somebody having to die to bring them back together. Multi, cultural fairs are LV once a years as well and Kushinda is always the highlight closing the fair, and Linda Vista and our reunion is another one that brings us all together. So they get to see when we have our reunion that wood now looks like. versus what it look like back then with all the races together hanging out and like we’re family everybody all the same it is really a beautiful grass that should be celebrated at least once a year, we like to show off our talents and have our superstar show up. Not only is it a talent show for the neighborhood people can come out and display their items set up, moves in display their art and creativity and their passions. Together we watch our families intertwine with each other, and we really become family. We watch our grandparents interact with us and our kids. It is really a beautiful thing to see us all get together at least once a year without sadness just celebrating in honor of all of our family that can’t make it or that we lost.

Keeping Their Passion Alive

Butch and Melinda were very proud of being from Linda Vista. Both of them came from big families that experienced minority issues growing up in the visit in the 50s and 60s. MelindA’s father was in the military and so was Butch’s grandfather. Melinda and Butch Appling were Linda Vista sweethearts that hooked up at a Linda Vista party and have been together since. Melinda and Butch Appling were a nice chunk of kids in Linda Vistas mom and pop. They always had a open arms, open door with open ears. They always had the best advice for anyones questions. They had challenging times that lead them to reach back and turn their negatives into positives with a compassionate heart to community that needed mother and father figures. They showed the community that there is always the light at the end of the tunnel and as long as you are taking steps towards the light you will get to the light showing you a bright beautiful and blessed reality you worked to get there. When they passed on many were sadden and many inspired. One thing for sure is their light will shine forever and their love will never die.

Our Family Is Stronger Together

We are stronger together. This is just the beginning for the Linda Vista family foundation. Now we have a chance to do more with more funding. Together we can stay lifting our community family regardless if we still stay in Linda Vista or not our family will always be family. We can keep remembering and paying homage to those that how to make us who we are today and spreading the love and Legacy of all of our loved ones. If you have somebody you would like to immortalize from Linda Vista please contact us and we can do something to honor their memory please reach out, set up a program to keep their memory alive.

Our Founder

The founder is Sukari Appling from Linda Vista. She is the oldest daughter of Melinda and Butch Appling. She is a sweetheart that aims to be like her mom and dad. She has been involved in her community service since Jr.High. She was a student turned African drum and dance teacher, as well as A Linda Vista Leader when she went to Montgomery Jr. High, and Peer Counseling President in Kearny High. She always wanted to do community service and help others like her mother and father. After her father passed away in 2008 she went and started back up Kushinda Drum & Dance to honor her father. She got into a horrible car accident, she could not teach the dance lessons anymore but her niece stepped up and kept the classes up. She asked her mother what she wanted her to do in her name since this time she knew her mother was passing away and her mom told her to continue her legacy doing community service in Linda Vista. Since that day that’s what she does now to keep her mothers and fathers memory alive. The month after her mother passed away in 2012 started the Holiday gift drive. Being the daughter of some community activists left her craving to fill the shoes of giants. They did a lot, so much she knows It is going to take a whole community non profit to start to pour back into our communities family.

SHARES 2 CARE APP

Hey now family please checkout and down our own San Diegan created App Shares2Cares. It was created back in 2020 and after we paid the developer and were working on errors when he disappeared after a year no communication now we are trying to pick it back up and try again. We need your help building an app that could help a lot of people out.. Its an app where people can share 100% FREE Hand Me Downs and Help Me Ups. Its an app that allows the world to post, find, and share free items that someone no longer needs or wants. Items can be new or used, big and small, every little bit counts. The app is going to be similar to "Craigslist", "Close 5" "Offer Up" BUT this app will be the ONLY app that has 100% FREE STUFF!

We need at least :
    $5,000 for the Android App Developement
        $5,000 for the iOS App Developement
   $5,000 for Advertisement and Promotion

OUR MISSION

We want to put the caring back in the sharing, and make it convenient to be helpful by placing the power to help others in the palm of every ones hands. We provide a platform where those that need help with day to day neccesities can come find free used/new donated and curb alert items at no cost, or fees AT ALL. We also want to provide a place for those that love to help people to feel the satisfaction of giving to real people. They actually know their donations have helped someone directly at no cost, instead of donating to a corporation that will sell their donations and help someone eventually by giving them a discount on their donated items. We want to give people that cannot afford discount stores to have a chance at peoples donations first, before they go somewhere for sale.. At the same time, and place we want to point them in the right direction to not only satisfy their temporary needs, but to also help them stabilize themselves to better help themselves in the future as well. We also provide and ask users to post and add to our long list of free helpful resources for self assistance for people dealing with issues anywhere from Domestic Violence to Single Parenting, Homelessness, and much more..

WHAT WE DO

In a world where the "Cost Of Living" is often more than a Full Time monthly minimum wage pay. A lot of families are below the poverty level and and in need of help.When people who grow up in poverty look around for help, most people they are close to are too busy trying to stay current with their own bills and life expenses to help anyone else out. This site/app will be a place they can go to for help and find things they need from people that no longer need them.. Shares2Cares is here to provide a place for people that need help obtaining things they need to get by at no cost.. We are giving the power of giving to every one with a cell phone, tablet, smart device, and computer. We also have community giveaway events where we give to people that may or may not have heard of us. We also provides a list of free resources to help people in all predicaments, giving them a chance to better help themselves as well. We believe we can all help people out helping them save their little money, one share at a time. Every little thing adds up real big!

WHAT YOU CAN DO ON THE APP

People need things such as food, clothes, hygiene care, shoes, socks, furniture, diapers, toys, phones, school/sport supplies, cars, bikes, and more. People are also donating and throwing away things like this all of the time. Those people are you and I. Its up to us that may have some extra items laying around that to snap a pic of and post for someone around us to pick up for free somewhere.Its up to us to fill this site/app up with sharing and caring. One by one, post by post, we can help each other out. By posting your unwanted items you can provide a family or individuals with somethings they really need...If you do not get rid of your items by the time you would like we can have it picked up and donated to charity as well. We also need people that need this help to know so spread the word! If you see someone in need or if you know someone that needs to get rid of some things tell them about Shares 2 Care App

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IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE SITE/APP...

GET STARTED HERE!
Shares2Cares is in the proccess of remaking this website a mobile app of its own but for now we are working through Americas BIGGEST Social Network Platform "Facebook" and it's working fine for now. Once we do get a million users we will definitely need our own space..
Please Join in on the fun of sharing and caring by following these easy steps:

Step 1: Set Up An Email Account
Step 2: set up a "Facebook" account

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY JOINED FACEBOOK LETS REALLY GET STARTED!

Step 3: go to or copy the link below and paste it in your address bar in a new tab

www.facebook.com/groups/sukares/

Step:4 Join and View The SuKares Hand Me Down Group

Step 5: Browse, Post, and Share 100% FREE Items and Any Links to Helpful Life Resource Assistance

Step 6: Like, Share, and Invite Your Friends and Community To Share The Love

Step 7: Spread The Word, Spread The Love And HAVE FUN!!!

If you do not wish to join Facebook to participate in helping out, we understand. You can always email us and we can post your items for you, or you can donate to us directly. We have a few donation locations set up and always looking for more.. We are going have Giveaway Events at least once a month where we display the items to members of communities and let them fill up bags of whatever they need for FREE. Whatever is left over gets donated to either Salvation Army, Goodwill, or Local Charities and Churches.. If you would like us to host a giveaway event in your community please email us and we will work with you to spread the caring and sharing until this is a global effort..

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, INTEREST, AND SUPPORT.. WE ARE UP AND RUNNING ON CARING, SHARING, WORD OF MOUTH, SHARES, AND POSITIVE ENERGY. WE NEVER PLAN ON CHARGING ANY OF OUR USERS ANYTHING TO FIND FREE HELP AND WE SEEK NO PROFIT FROM THIS SITE..
THERE ARE THINGS THAT SHARES 2 CARES NEEDS THAT DO REQUIRE $$ LIKE SITE MANAGEMENT, WEB DEVELOPMENT, PHONE APP DEVELOPMENT, ADVERTISEMENT, MARKETING, AND HOSTING EVENTS. WE ARE SEEKING AND ACCEPTING ALL DONATIONS, INVESTORS, SPONSORSHIP, HELP OUT, VOLUNTEERS, AND CROWDFUNDING EFFORTS TO HELP THIS SPREAD FASTER AND VASTER AS WELL.. IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP TODAY YOUR EFFORTS COULD HELP YOUR COMMUNITY, CITY, STATE, COUNTRY, AND EVENTUALLY THE WORLD. PLEASE REACH OUT

The Linda Vista Family Foundation

Loving our LINDA VISTA Community family empowers us all