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  • New York:
    New York City
This House was initiated with a search for a place to start a Soup Kitchen, where the poor would be given food. All the services provided by Fraternite Notre Dame's members are free of charge. Over a period of 10 years, without including the Food Pantry Service helping needy families, Fraternite Notre Dame has offered about (75,000 in 1996) one million free meals!
      
  • What we do in New York:
      

1- Soup Kitchen Service: an average of 300 free meals are served four days a week

2- Meals on Wheels Program: in the streets of New York City; about 250 meals a week

3- Meals brought to persons in their apartments: those afflicted with AIDS, the elderly, or people experiencing difficulties

4- Everyday, thanks to a truck offered by Manhattan's Rotary Club, we are able to extend our activities while performing various pick ups of more donated food, clothes and furniture

5- Food Pantry Service on Saturdays, helping more than 600 families

6- Referrals to other organizations that provide complementary services, for people going through difficult times, to help them play a role in society again

7- Every month, we celebrate the birthdays of poor kids who live in the area of the Soup Kitchen

8- Every year at Christmas, we offer over 2,000 gifts to the children in our neighborhood during a special Christmas party

9- Same thing is done for a group of mentally retarded and handicapped kids in our area

10- Several times a week, visits to families in difficulty, to bring them food and friendship, and soften their many family problems

11- Clothing and furniture distributions to families in need

12- For great holidays, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., we provide special meals to Veterans in our area

13- We get help from volunteers of every background: Interact, Rotaract and the Rotary Club, young people from various schools, Cadets from West Point Military School and young cadets from Harlem, individual volunteers, YSOP work force, etc.

14- Fraternite Notre Dame's members also volunteer at Goldwater-Coler Memorial Hospital, where they offer their help, on a regular basis, in the wards reserved to people afflicted with AIDS

15- Every Tuesday, a Nun assures French classes in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, visits the patients in the Jail's hospital, conducts a choir of inmates and prepares for the annual Christmas celebration, when a snack and some gifts are offered to the prisoners.

    
       

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