El veintitrés de marzo/March 23rd
Photos from myhero.com. Click HERE . ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Jorge Muñoz! (1964- ) Jorge Muñoz, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2010 for his work feeding the hungry, is a Colombian immigrant who came to the United States in the 1980s. He was following his mother, who had come after struggling for years to support her family. He became a permanent resident in 1987 (under the Amnesty Act signed by then President Reagan) and then a citizen of the United States in the 1990s. A school bus driver who makes just slightly over $500 a week, he nonetheless has served thousands of meals to the hungry in New York City since 2004. He cooks the meals in his own kitchen every evening after work alongside his mother and other family members. The work started when some Colombian friends in the food industry told him how much food was wasted each day, and then soon after he noticed a few day laborers on the corner and asked if they we...
