An activist who 'took matters into her own hands' to help feed the homeless in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, California, was severely beaten by a pipe-wielding homeless woman on February 22.

The victim, Eva Woods, has been feeding the 'unhoused residents' in Los Angeles for six years after resources were cut back because of Covid.

According to a GoFundMe set up Woods' friend, a homeless woman approached Woods from behind and bashed her in the face with a metal pipe.

The homeless woman hit Woods in the jaw and knocked out six of her teeth.

Woods needed surgery on her upper and lower jaw and will need six dental implants.

Per the GoFundMe:

Hi, my name is Catherine Schetina, and I'm organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Eva Woods. I have known Eva for more than a decade. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Eva immediately realized that services for the unhoused residents of Los Angeles would suffer as resources were cut and organizations shuttered.

She took matters into her own hands. We are now in our sixth year of the MacArthur Project – a mutual aid collective run entirely by volunteers. We provide more than 700 meals each week to the unhoused and housing insecure residents of MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, and over the past six years we've built incredibly powerful relationships within our communities. We're there three days a week – Sunday lunch, Monday lunch, and Thursday breakfast. We also host monthly events and supply drives, distributing hygiene kits, grocery items, tents, shelter supplies, medical supplies, and so much more. We actively partner with the people we serve, and strive to bring them the items they tell us they need most.

Eva's full time job is planning, executing, and responding rapidly to the needs of our unhoused neighbors. She's been doing it incredibly well for six years now, and is supported by a generous community on Patreon that allows this to be her full time job. But today we're asking for more help.

During our regular lunch service on Sunday 2/22, a woman came through the park with a metal pipe. Without conversation, she came up behind Eva and hit her in the jaw. Eva was taken to the hospital and had surgery the following day on her upper and lower jaw, both of which were broken. Her jaw is wired shut for the next four weeks, and then she'll be able to get dental implants to replace the six teeth she lost.