So much of what starts in our food pantries and soup kitchen — the centers of Project Hospitality’s web of care — extends forward. Our soup kitchens and food pantries serve in ways not only related to food, but related to health, related to life, related to comfort, and related to basic human needs. Last year we served almost 1.8 …
Project Hospitality Spring Brunch Celebrates Devoted Service
We, as a community, are only as strong as the weakest among us. Without courageous people to confront the structures of poverty and oppression, we would all struggle to rise. Without volunteers to share their hands and hearts, Project Hospitality would struggle to feed, shelter and serve our most vulnerable neighbors. Project Hospitality’s Spring Brunch at the …
Los Promotores Tutoring Program Teaches Academics and Our Shared Humanity
The elementary school children and their mothers in the Los Promotores tutoring program balance traditions. As immigrants from Latin America, they are learning the ways of their new country. As families with roots in their native homes, they strive to keep old traditions alive. The innovative after school program adds even more color to their cultural palate — introducing them …
A Summer Day at Project Hospitality’s Soup Kitchen — Cooking Chilled Hungarian Fruit Soup for 300
Soup fuels the body and feeds the soul. Uplifting and humble, it can be found on tables across the globe — going down smooth and warming to the core. The term “Soup Kitchen” comes originally from the mobile trucks which handed out quick, one-bowl meals to soldiers during times of military conflict. Project Hospitality’s Soup Kitchen serves much more than soup …
Journeys from Street Homelessness to Stability
It’s not what you don’t do. It’s what you do. For our Staten Island neighbors living on the streets and in the clutches of addiction, getting high and hiding may sometimes seem like the only escape. Figuring out how to undo this cycle is not as easy as just saying no. It takes saying yes — Yes to creating new pathways in the …
There but for the Grace…
and grateful for the Grace of Project Hospitality. Over 20,000 pounds of fresh produce was distributed Friday at our Community Center, as part of a weekly initiative sponsored by Food Bank NYC that will go through June 17. Some of the hands handing out these fruits and vegetables belonged to longtime, devoted volunteers: Residents of Bayley Seton who are living …
Helping Others Find The Way Home
The shadow cast by Superstorm Sandy has been long and wide. Imagine a church parsonage, miles from the flood zone, more than two years after the storm, still suffering the after-effects of the disaster. That is precisely the story of the Stapleton UAME Church, where Reverend Maggie Howard’s roof was torn open by wind during the storm. Over months, she …
It is spring; let us begin together.
It is spring again. No winter lasts forever. At Project Hospitality, we have welcomed the new season by clearing space on our food pantry shelves for the generous bounty donated by local farms in our warmer months. This is the fresh food that brings life, hope and nourishment to the hungry on Staten Island. The vibrant greens and tender fruit …
PH Volunteers Grow By Giving
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the King Holiday to serve their neighbors and communities. On January 19, more than 30 volunteers from the Food Bank for New York City spent their holiday bestowing …
Generous Donors “Adopt” families for the holidays
A winter coat. A pair of work shoes. A toaster. A large cooking pot. A rug for the floor so their children’s feet won’t freeze. The magical question, “What do you want for the holidays?” evoked startlingly similar responses from the 14 families chosen by Project Hospitality to receive gifts through one of our partner’s generous “Adopt-a-Family” program. These families …