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Matos (pictured): Getting the team ready.
New Haven’s Kica Matos is getting ready for Trump immigration raids. She needs New Haven’s help to pay the bill.
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Ready to fly: HSC students Jonah Rosenberg, Jazmin Rosario, Diana Robles, and Justin Welch, who worked with Japanese class to fold 1,000 paper cranes to take to Japan.
High School in the Community (HSC) junior Ty’Nique Turner will get the chance to visit Japan and try out the language she’s been teaching herself since middle school, thanks to New Haven Public Schools’ return of international adventures.
Assuming organizers can raise a lot of money fast.
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New Haven Puerto Rican community leaders have joined with colleagues statewide to relaunch an aid effort to Puerto Rico as Hurricane Fiona ravages the island.
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Kristen Schick, coastal cleanup intern for environmental nonprofit Save the Sound, collecting trash during Sunday morning's cleanup at Criscuolo Park.
Hub cap. Fish skull. Brand new bucket hat. Bike chain. An entire picnic setup. And so, so many metal bottle caps.
These were among the items included in 200 pounds of trash collected by volunteers at Criscuolo Park on Sunday morning.
Continue reading ‘Peace Waged, Park Butts & Hub Caps Cleared On Interfaith Day of Service’
by | Apr 18, 2022 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Yaira Matyakubova and Lyala Stowe at gathering on Peck Street.
The room was hushed when Lyala Stowe began to speak. Her voice was soft. She is from Ukraine, and she was about to recite poems by Ukrainian poets.
Stowe apologized that most audience members would not comprehend the words, spoken in her native tongue. Regardless, the room held onto every syllable.
Continue reading ‘Violin Strings, Heartstrings, Pulled For Ukraine’
by | Apr 9, 2021 2:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Formula Pantry visionary Brenda Adkins.
Pastor Brenda Adkins refuses to stand aside while families struggle to afford feed babies: She has decided to collect formula throughout the summer to start a Formula Pantry.
by | Feb 1, 2021 10:32 am | Comments (3)
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Honda Smith and Andrea Daniels-Singleton in the kitchen before hitting the road to deliver meals in West Hills.
As temperatures swooped below freezing, New Haveners delivered sustenance to their neighbors: bags of prepared beef and potatoes for seniors in West Hills, groceries for hungry families in the Hill, Mystic cheese and locally produced honey for farmers market shoppers in Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘1 Day, 3 Pivots: Neighbors Feed Neighbors’
by | Dec 15, 2020 1:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Rasheed at the Hill substation.
At 10 years old, Jamilah Rasheed had one used pair of shoes for school. Passed down from her cousin, the shoes were a size too small. Her family couldn’t afford anything else. A hole eventually formed in the back of those used shoes until Rasheed couldn’t wear them anymore.
She thinks back on that time as she enlists New Haveners to help a new generation of young people stay warm this the winter.
Continue reading ‘Help “NICE” Neighbors Clothe Kids In Cold’
by | Dec 2, 2020 2:38 pm | Comments (0)
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Food giveaway at Barnard last week, one of many in New Haven as hunger grows during the pandemic.
(Opinion) Imagine: You’ve just lost your job due to the pandemic, and now you don’t know how you will afford your next diaper run. Or, you can’t go to work or school, or partake in daily activities, simply because you can’t access the period or incontinence supplies you need.
Continue reading ‘Pandemic Puts Basic Health Needs Out Of Reach For Many Families’
by | Oct 16, 2020 12:53 pm | Comments (43)
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“There’s a lot of us that are still out here. I’ve known people who fell asleep outside and died.”
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“Before you could walk into the library and stay there. You could look for jobs. You could look for food pantries. Without a phone, without internet access, it’s very difficult for people living in tents, living outdoors.”
Sizing up the challenge ahead — and how we as a community can meet it.
by | May 11, 2020 2:25 pm | Comments (1)
Towers Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Moskowitz with the handmade blankets.
Women in The Towers assisted-living apartments have added homemade blankets to a Covid-era mask-making network.
Continue reading ‘Towers Residents Crochet For First Reponders’
by | Apr 20, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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ConnCAT President and CEO Erik Clemons.
A Science Park-based job training and education center has launched a new Covid-19 relief fund geared towards raising $600,000 to provide direct financial assistance to Dixwell and Newhallville families struggling during the pandemic.
by | Apr 17, 2020 11:50 am | Comments (1)
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Picking up groceries at the DESK food pantry downtown.
A comprehensive digital guide to food pantries and soup kitchens. A drive-through farmers market with no cap on doubled food stamp dollars. Mutual aid collaborations designed to get food to immigrants in need.
Those are among the grassroots efforts in town to make sure New Haveners don’t starve during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Frontline Providers Hustle To Keep City Fed’
by | Apr 14, 2020 1:22 pm | Comments (4)
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Organizer Luis Luna at the Food Garage: Undocumented workers are frontline workers.
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Common Ground High School barn, where Food Garage team divides up boxes.
What began in mid-March with a few boxes of extra vegetables from Trader Joe’s has turned into a grassroots operation that collects donated food for around 180 mostly immigrant families a week out of a garage in Westville.
Continue reading ‘“Food Garage” Feeds Families During Covid’
by | Apr 2, 2020 2:58 pm | Comments (1)
Bohn: 60 years of sewing helps.
MakeHaven volunteers have sewn 402 face masks for nonprofits and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Regina Bohn has made almost half of them.
by | Mar 30, 2020 4:15 pm | Comments (1)
The Mary Wade Home, an historic and anchoring institution of the Chatham Square section of Fair Haven, and its largest employer, has issued a plea for donations of masks, tablets, and financial support in the wake of the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Mar 27, 2020 11:45 am | Comments (3)
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CTCORE’s Raven Blake, Ashley Blount and Camelle Scott.
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Semilla Collective’s Sarah Eppler-Epstein and Eden Almasude.
Two groups of local community organizers have set up grassroots “mutual aid” funds with the goal of providing everything from grocery runs to educational support to direct cash assistance for vulnerable New Haveners during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Mutual Aid Teams Tackle Covid-19 Challenge’
by | Mar 25, 2020 8:12 pm | Comments (2)
Robinson demonstrates prototype for a possible ventilator system.
New Haven’s DIY “makers” are pitching in to respond to the shortage of masks and other critical supplies at hospitals amid the spread of Covid-19.
Continue reading ‘City “Makers” Sew Masks, Tweak Covid-19 Fixes’
by | Mar 20, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (5)
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Sharon Lovett-Graff was in Edgewood Park posting emergency information — and wishing she could do it in Arabic.
Anyone out there able to help?
by | Mar 20, 2020 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
CFGNH CEO Will Ginsberg announcing the new effort Friday on WNHH FM.
A newly established fund aims to pour millions of dollars in coming months into helping New Haveners who are struggling to pay rent, buy food and stay healthy during the spread of the covid-19 coronavirus.
by | Mar 19, 2020 2:03 pm | Comments (0)
Like other operators of senior facilities, the folks at Tower One/Tower East are working hard to keep their residents alive — and fed — during the COVID-19 crisis.
You can help.
by | Mar 16, 2020 1:34 pm | Comments (9)
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Qulen Wright at Ninth Square Market II Caribbean Style, one of the restaurants pivoting to take-out.
A local professor has begun a Google Doc to help inform people how to support restaurants that are pivoting to take-out and delivery amid a statewide order to close dine-in service.
Continue reading ‘Where To Find Take-Out Food, Support Local Businesses’
by | Mar 13, 2020 12:54 pm | Comments (3)
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Homeless patrons gather outside Sunrise for meals to go.
Within 24 hours, a crucial meal-provider for the homeless found a way to keep free breakfasts flowing while helping stem the spread of COVID-19 — even if that means sacrificing some of a sense of community in the short run.
Continue reading ‘Homeless Meal Lifeline Shifts To Take-Out’
by | Jan 17, 2020 2:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Honoree Batson with proud daughter Whitney.
In her work as a pre-school teacher in Hamden, Allison Batson discovered many of the families of her kids were food insecure.
That, along with her faith, led her to found “Dinner for a Dollar,” a communal supper that now feeds about 60 people, including the homeless, isolated seniors looking for social contact, and just plain neighbors, every Friday night 52 weeks a year at the Grace and St. Peter’s Church on Dixwell Avenue in northern Hamden.
Batson has never missed a Dinner for a Dollar night in eight years. In her spare time (!) she volunteers at warming centers in Hamden and helps on the homeless front through service on the board of Columbus House.
Continue reading ‘“Game Changer” Honored For Feeding The Hungry’
by | Feb 26, 2019 5:06 pm | Comments (1)
The fire department has sent out a signal 4 — for citizens needing help — not for a fire, but for the community to support neighbors hurt by the recent federal government shutdown.
Continue reading ‘FD Sends Out A Signal 4— To Help Furloughed Workers’ Families’