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Emilian Emeagwali, founder of Giving Back to Community Corporation, an Elmont-based nonprofit, traveled to her hometown Onitsha, Nigeria, last month to help feed more than 2,000 people. She visited two orphanages in Onitsha, and gave bags of rice and salt to the children.
This is what 'Giving Back' looks like in Elmont
Giving Back to Community Corporation, an Elmont-based nonprofit, raised more than $33,000 in 2023, with residents’ help, to aid the hungry on both a local and international scale. The organization held raffles and hosted a gala and a 5K run, and all of its work was made possible by community support. more
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Long Island Cares’ on-site emergency food pantry facility is on the cusp of becoming operational and is expected to open this spring after months of bureaucratic delays.
This long-awaited Long Island Cares pantry plans to open next spring
The long-awaited and long-promised onsite emergency food pantry facility, run by the Freeport-based regional food bank, Long Island Cares, may finally be up and running by this spring. While the … more
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The Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce hosted three Thanksgiving food drives for neighbors in need.
Thanksgiving drives galore this November
Amid a season of gratitude piled high with festive celebrations for many families, for others, the holidays can just as easily be a source of lack and financial stress. To ease the hardships some … more
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Community gardens nourish our neighborhoods
Improving the environment doesn’t always entail a big undertaking. It can start small, with local, eco-friendly initiatives like . . . more
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‘Hunger in America is the ultimate obscenity’
My parents were worried the moment I laid eyes on the apartment for the very first time. It was the entire top floor of a car dealership just off what would eventually become Interstate 86, at the edge of the Finger Lakes region upstate. This would be my first apartment — my first home outside the family home where I grew up in Pennsylvania. more
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News porn, food porn and shopping porn
Really, the world outside is conspiring to corrupt us. The mindless chatter is deafening, the distractions are pervasive . . . more
Easy summer living? Not for some children.
Summer leaves some school-aged kids scrambling to find a healthy meal, since they can’t depend on the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs at their school. more
The Women’s Empowerment BERG program at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital donated close to 500 menstrual products for women at the Memorial Presbyterian Church food pantry in Roosevelt.
Women at this area food pantry lack access to period products. Long Island Jewish Valley Stream staffers are changing that.
It’s a dilemma faced by countless women when they are menstruating. They need access to sanitary pads and tampons to get through their periods, but due to persistent obstacles like the … more
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It’s time for our energy to go public
Most Long Islanders are rightly confused about who is responsible for our ever-rising electricity bills. We get our electric bills from PSEG, yet there's also the Long Island Power Authority, as well as National Grid. Who does what? more
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