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VACAVILLE, California ( KOVR ) -- As federal food aid stops on Nov. 1 due to the ongoing government shutdown, some mothers in Vacaville are stepping up to feed families.

Leeann Rositano posted a photo of her empty fridge on the Facebook group Vaca Moms and said she was down to her last $20 of SNAP food benefits. She feared she would not be able to feed herself or her daughter, Lily.

Her neighbors showed up big and filled her shelves plus stocked her fridge with food.

"I can sleep peacefully now," Rositano said. "I was worried. I was scared."

Amanda Stewart saw Rositano's post and took the food crisis into her own hands. Her inbox was quickly flooded with people needing help and wanting to help.

"Whatever I can do. If I can organize to get famili

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