03/27/2021
This is “Raymonda” , a wonderful, sweet , and beautiful hard worker that comes from Los Angeles, CA to sell flowers in our city of Long Beach, CA! Raymonda has a son in his 20’s who also sells flowers in the city of Long Beach, CA , each day with no days off Raymonda and her son switch off locations of selling flowers just because in some areas flowers sell more , so they give each other an equal opportunity to sell . Raymonda is from Guatemala and she has daughters out there as well . This is her and her sons only income and only work ! Being a flower street vendor they don’t make much money at all due to them having to pay the flower company who gives them the flowers to sell . Put it this way , if Raymonda and her son sells each flower bouquet for $10 , she only receives $4 and the $6 goes to the flower company . So if they sell 15 sets of flowers , that would be $150 but they don’t receive that money . Raymonda and her son only receive $40 from that $150 , just an example.
Raymonda and her son usually sell in different locations in the city of Long Beach , CA . You can find them at .
Willow st & Pacific Ave
Spring st & Cherry Ave
Anaheim st & Atlantic Ave
From 9am to 5:30pm Saturday - Sunday
You guys have been a big help with donations , in total we have received for her $170 which all was given to her the same day that donations come in . Plus she received more donations on the streets from passerby’s .
The reason why a Go-FundMe has not been created yet is because Gofundme happens to take a big chunk of the proceeds that are raised , and it takes a while for the proceeds to get to them . We will continue to think about that though . The reason why we have zelle for her and her son is because No fees get taken out from donations and they are available automatically to give to them . None of your guy’s donations are kept by this page , all proceeds go straight to them .
We are currently working on getting other businesses to help Raymonda and her son with essential needs . If you guys have any offers , donations , thoughts , please feel free to dm our page .
This is not a temporary thing , we want this to be a lifelong journey on helping Raymonda ❤️