Yesterday I participated in The Friends Seminary Meal-A-Thon. The community (students, faculty, staff, administration and families) gathered in the cafeteria to make bag lunches (sandwiches, fruit, desert, drink) for people who are currently homeless on Staten Island due to Sandy. The energy was intense and great. Two hours of the afternoon had been set aside but so many people showed up that we filled every bag within about 45 minutes. The scene in these pictures may look a bit chaotic but it wasn’t. It was just filled to the rim with enthusiasm. The community also collected several hundred blankets to donate to a shelter in Chelsea that has light but no heat.
Saturday a number of the parents and High School and Middle School students will be going to Staten Island to set up pop up food stations and help residents clean the debris from their homes and streets.
Then I walked outside to go to my Photoshop class:
5:30PM – 43rd Street and 6th Avenue
Midnight – my street
November 11th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Things look so desolate. However, the people look very happy to be helping. Hopefully, things will not take as long as Katrina.
November 12th, 2012 at 10:26 am
It is problematic because this part of the country is so much more densely populated than LA and MS.
November 8th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Good work.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:00 am
Thanks you. Every little bit helps.
November 8th, 2012 at 11:07 am
Pretty snow.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:01 am
It was. Very weird though to have a snowstorm a week after a huuricane. I think most of us don’t associate the two.