Dear Friends of HOPE:
Senior citizens facing a choice between buying food or buying medicine. Working poor who often cannot meet the cost of both food and shelter for their family. People on the edge of homelessness, simply unable to feed their children and themselves. Immigrants struggling to make a new home in a community where even the most basic needs are beyond their reach. These are the people who have reached out for HOPE’s helping hand since 1984.
In our comfortable environment in southern Westchester, it is easy to forget the needy. HOPE exists to make sure that we do not forget. HOPE was founded in 1984 by the tireless Mary Lou McNaney, with the assistance of Dorothy Meehan and a host of dedicated volunteers. Today HOPE is the largest direct service emergency food provider in all of Westchester. There is a stereotype that assumes that those who rely on programs like ours are lazy. don’t want to work, don’t try to help themselves. They are not the people we see at HOPE.We see the elderly, the infirm, struggling young parents with infants and small children, the suddenly unemployed, newcomers overwhelmed by the daily demands of life in a new place.
With your help, we are able to serve meals in our kitchen, distribute groceries in our pantry, provide comprehensive social services and English classes, and offer a special summer day camp. Our food services include HOPE’s Community Kitchen which serves dinner three evenings a week 52 weeks a year, and the Food Pantry, which distributes bagged groceries every other Wednesday with
special distributions for holidays such as Thanksgiving.
