SAN LEANDRO — When Samantha McDuffie woke up Tuesday morning, she didn’t know her kids would be at her Tuesday night Walmart shift.
She dropped off her 12-year-old son, Keyshawn, and 8-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, at the East Oakland Youth Center, where they’ve been going for five years.
“You know we’ll be at Walmart on Davis today,” they told mom when they arrived.
“I’m like, ‘My job?'” McDuffie said. “And they were like, ‘Yeah, your job.'”
McDuffie, who has worked at Walmart for four years, has helped with each Raiders charity event there. For the past five years, Raiders veteran offensive lineman Donald Penn has worked with his WellBeing Trust foundation and the East Oakland Youth Center to help kids with their Christmas shopping.