78 holiday gifts were delivered in December to elderly residents at the Andrus on Hudson nursing home (down the street from our Hastings on Hudson, NY office) and to other struggling Hastings seniors thanks to some generous Rivertowns families! We received gift wish-lists for seniors at the nursing home who have either no family, or no local family, along with wish-lists for struggling seniors in our town, and reached out to our community for help with gifts! In no time our office was filled with presents and cards for each of them.
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We made it! Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we were able to provide turkeys and other Thanksgiving foods, or grocery gift cards for Thanksgiving foods, to all 919 families in our program this year.
A huge thank you to the girl scouts in Troop 2606 in Irvington, N.Y. for helping make the holidays happen for a family in need! These 4th graders made bracelets and baskets to sell at their local “Turkey Trot” running event, with the proceeds going towards the purchase of toys and games on the Christmas wish lists of four siblings (and their mom) in Orlando, Florida. Happy Holidays made truly happy!
We’re happy to report that we provided all 228 Holocaust survivors in our sponsorship program with an extra grocery gift card for Rosh Hashanah. Thanks to our generous donors for enabling us to provide these vulnerable seniors with not only a little extra food on the table, but also with the knowledge that they are remembered and treasured.
Thanks to the many generous local families who joined our drive, we collected a whopping 96 “Pool Bags” — one for every child in need in Hastings on Hudson and Dobbs Ferry, NY, plus a few extras! Donors filled each bag with a brand new beach towel, bottle of sunscreen and water bottle. The bags were distributed to kids going to the two village day camps, by the Hastings Youth Council, and SPRING in Dobbs Ferry. The extras were given to kids in refugee families living in a motel in Ardsley, NY.
A big thank you to all the kids at Hillside Elementary School in Hastings on Hudson, NY for collecting hundreds of full sized personal care products for local families in need! Students in each grade (kindergarten through 4th grade) brought in an assigned item, and then the kids assembled 50 zip-lock bags — each one filled with a shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap and shaving cream. Half the finished bags were donated to the Hastings food pantry, and the other half to the Dobbs Ferry food pantry. It takes a village!
