Sentences with phrase «distributed food and clothing»

In 1941, the Social Service Society became known as the Family Welfare Society and its services expanded to include foster homes for children in need, feeding transients and local families and distributing food and clothing to families and individuals.

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They will then distribute the funds among local nonprofits to pay for food, medical supplies, clothing, social services, and other resources.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

Together with John Legend and New York Knick Amar» e Stoudemire, volunteers will help clean up Far Rockaway and distribute much - needed goods, food, and new clothing to those suffering in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

In addition to offering free medical services her organization has helped people find shelter and has distributed medications, blankets and clothing, household goods and food coupons — as well as providing classes and training to help the refugees adjust to their new situation.

She spent most of the next 3 years in Alexandria, working to assist formerly enslaved people (known as Contrabands at the time), distributing food, clothing and supplies, Read More...

The gift cards will be distributed to families to buy food, clothing and cleaning supplies.

During the Great Depression, the Family Society (which subsequently changed its corporate name from Associated Charities to the Family Welfare Society of Ithaca) accepted the role as Ithaca's singular welfare relief agency by distributing food, clothing and financial assistance to the city's neediest families; thereby depleting the majority of the modest endowment it had acquired prior to the Depression.

White Rock's Jack MacDonald and Abbotsford's Sue Marples give tirelessly to the Salvation Army — Marples regularly helps out in the soup kitchen and MacDonald delivers food hampers and distributes clothing on behalf of the Thrift Store.