Volunteers from the divine nine organizations and city leaders teamed up to unpack and pack winter Essentials for families and people living in The Shelter Systems news 12’s Shanice Archer has the details on the acts of service that are making a difference from unpacking to packing dozens gathered inside a garage downtown
Brooklyn to make sure people in our shelters have things to keep them warm during the winter so we had distributed items to our shelters throughout our system we have individuals who need and we were able to get these donations and we’re able to pack them put them on our
Trucks and distribute them to our shelters with donations from Uniqlo in the Council of fashion of America hundreds of families and people will receive new shoes coats and winter Goods a small token reminding them that the community cares we’re all out here doing the work of our communities in support
Of service to all mankind acts of service that volunteers from some members from the divine nine the historically black fraternities and sororities says this is a part of their mission giving back is one of their founding principles so bringing relief to people living in the DHS Shelter
System is what coming together for the community is all about I feel so good that you know the my nine as they all always do stood up and said hey how can we help the city of New York how can we help the residents and shelter this is
What we do we’re all about community service families and shelters from across our boroughs have already received some of these items and tomorrow the Day of Service continues from downtown Brooklyn I’m Shanice Archer news 12.
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