Wednesday, December 23, 2020

East Village Loves NYC prepares 1st holiday feast; tops more than 70,000 meals made for hungry New Yorkers in 2020

This past Sunday, East Village Loves NYC — the local volunteer group that formed in the spring to feed people in need during the pandemic — prepared its first holiday meal. 

At the Sixth Street Community Center between Avenue B and Avenue C, the East Village residents cooked and delivered 3,000 high-quality Mexican Halal meals to 17 organizations around the city.

The group is currently working with the crowdfunding platform ioby (an acronym for In Our Backyard) to raise money to feed low-income Black communities in Harlem and Queens that have been hit hard by the pandemic. (This project is eligible for up to $8,000 in match funding through ioby's NYC COVID-19 Just Recovery Match Fund. Find the crowdfunding page here.)

On Sunday, EVG contributor Stacie Joy documented the group's holiday food preparation ... as East Village Loves NYC has assembled more than 70,000 meals on the year...


This team of East Village volunteers formed in April (as Stacie documented in the links below). Early on, Ali Sahin, the owner of C&B Cafe on Seventh Street near Avenue B, donated his space on Mondays for the group to cook its meals ... while there, they were able to prepare up to 800 meals and 100 family-size pantry packs.

By June, they had outgrown the space, and started assembling deliveries at the Sixth Street Community Center. 
By the end of the summer, East Village Loves Queens expanded its operations and announced its new name — East Village Loves NYC. 

Find out more about the group and how to donate at this link. Follow them on Instagram here.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful. I just donated a bit (all I could) to this great project!

Anonymous said...

BRAVO! and hooray for the focus on benevolence and people helping people. Please be generous and support our neighbors as they sustain others. Thank you all.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful people, wonderful project. I just donated as well - I can't do much, but if we all chip in a little, we can accomplish a lot!

Anonymous said...

Great cause in this great neighborhood. Great images as well.

Anonymous said...

Every little bit helps; no donation is too small; it all makes an impact! Blessings on all involved!

La vie est belle said...

What a wonderful thing to do. Thank you all for your generous hearts!

sophocles said...

Inspired work.