Help us safely provide monthly groceries and PPE to older adults in Flatbush, Brooklyn
Since COVID-19 hit NYC in March we have been providing groceries and PPE to residents every week. We are now supporting 100+ elder households with food, distributing groceries to 26 residents a week on a rotating schedule.
Rather than continuing our 26-residents-a-week cycle we will deliver to all 103 once a month.
We will continue to source our PPE from Fou Gallery, which uses their proceeds to purchase PPE for the local community, and our groceries from Brooklyn Packers, a worker-owned, Black led food-distribution cooperative based in Brownsville.
Additionally, Brooklyn Packers will start delivering directly and will provide us with distribution support so we can drop boxes off door-to-door as efficiently as possible.
The residents are elderly and low-income, people of color, and immigrants, increasing the likelihood of their dying from COVID.
Although the PPE and food we provide can only begin to address the hardship our elders face, it undoubtedly continues to be a necessary project, especially in the face of a tidal wave of COVID-19 infections this winter.