Community Service Club Volunteers at El Nido

by Jordan Brodsky

On April 26th, the Community Service Club revisted El Nido de Esperanza in Washington Heights to volunteer. Nido de Esperanza is a non-profit organization that seeks to break the cycle of poverty by changing the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, as one in four children in New York City are born into poverty. They work with families from pregnancy through the child’s third birthday. They also work with new immigrant moms in the community, and believe in tackling poverty neighborhood by neighborhood and empowering moms. Six key areas they work on with these families to help make parenting a little easier are: nutrition, education and literacy, material goods and finances, child safety and health, community and support, and mama well-being.
 
As volunteers, we have helped them sort, fold, organize, and pack: new wardrobes for babies in need, bags of food, and books and toys by age and category, all of which are donations provided to Nido. They normally only have two people working there to do all of this, so having volunteers come in and help with all of this makes the amazing work that they do just a little bit easier! It is truly an incredible organization!! You can read more about their missions here
 
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