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.
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.
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.
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.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 1, 2021 10:32 am
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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.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 15, 2020 1:58 pm
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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.
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Janet Stolfi Alfano |
Dec 2, 2020 2:38 pm
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(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.
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.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 17, 2020 11:50 am
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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.
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.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 30, 2020 4:15 pm
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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.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 27, 2020 11:45 am
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 13, 2020 12:54 pm
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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.
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Jan 17, 2020 2:55 pm
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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.
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.