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UFT food bank events

UFT volunteers, including public school parents and members, partnered with local restaurants and food banks to distribute 20,000 meals to hungry New Yorkers. The initiative included events in each of the five boroughs at which 1,000 meals per week were given away in each borough over a four-week period. 

A woman wearing a mask packs food into grocery bags

Karen Imbert, a volunteer, packs lentils into grocery bags at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Manhattan on Jan. 8.

Jonathan Fickies
A group gathers to talk about the event taking place.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew (second from right) speaks with community partners who supported the initiative: (from left) Tren'ness Woods-Black of Sylvia's, a restaurant that donated meals; Rev. Anne Marie Witchger, Rev. Matthew Heyd and Michael Walrond. The group came together to lend a hand at First Corinthian Baptist Church on Jan. 8. 

Jonathan Fickies
A group of people get together to pack food boxes outside of a union building.

UFT volunteers get together to pack 210 boxes of food outside the UFT's Bronx borough office on Dec. 10. Each box contained groceries for three meals for family. 

Bruce Cotler
A woman walks outside of a building with a box of food.

Maria Morales, the UFT Bronx parent and community liaison, lends a hand at the UFT's Bronx borough office on Dec. 10. 

Bruce Cotler
A woman looks to assist a man holding a box of food.

Volunteer Wayne Wettley helps distribute meals from Sweet Mama's Soul Food Restaurant on Dec. 19 at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Manhattan. 

Erica Berger
A crowd of people wait on the streets to take part in the food distribution event.

Like many of the food distribution events, the line at St. Charles on Dec. 19 stretched around the block. 

Erica Berger
A man and two women pose for a photo while wearing masks behind a distribution table.

UFT Staff Director Anthony Harmon helped out on Dec. 22 at Beulah Church of God in Christ Jesus in Brooklyn, where he's flanked by church administrator Carolyn Jackson (left) and event coordinator Virginia Lloyd before preparing lunches made by LaBegal Restaurant. 

Jonathan Fickies
A group poses behind a distribution table with halal food and water bottles.

UFT volunteers, restaurant workers and volunteers from the North Bronx Islamic Center are ready to hand out halal meals from Curry & Kebab, a local restaurant, on Jan. 6. 

Erica Berger
A woman and her daughter pose for a photo. Both are wearing masks.

Hazera Hussain, a UFT parent volunteer, and her daughter, who attends PS 56 were among the volunteers handing out lunches on Jan. 6 at the North Bronx Islamic Center. 

Erica Berger
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A woman wearing a mask packs food into grocery bags

Karen Imbert, a volunteer, packs lentils into grocery bags at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Manhattan on Jan. 8.

Jonathan Fickies
A group gathers to talk about the event taking place.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew (second from right) speaks with community partners who supported the initiative: (from left) Tren'ness Woods-Black of Sylvia's, a restaurant that donated meals; Rev. Anne Marie Witchger, Rev. Matthew Heyd and Michael Walrond. The group came together to lend a hand at First Corinthian Baptist Church on Jan. 8. 

Jonathan Fickies
A group of people get together to pack food boxes outside of a union building.

UFT volunteers get together to pack 210 boxes of food outside the UFT's Bronx borough office on Dec. 10. Each box contained groceries for three meals for family. 

Bruce Cotler
A woman walks outside of a building with a box of food.

Maria Morales, the UFT Bronx parent and community liaison, lends a hand at the UFT's Bronx borough office on Dec. 10. 

Bruce Cotler
A woman looks to assist a man holding a box of food.

Volunteer Wayne Wettley helps distribute meals from Sweet Mama's Soul Food Restaurant on Dec. 19 at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Manhattan. 

Erica Berger
A crowd of people wait on the streets to take part in the food distribution event.

Like many of the food distribution events, the line at St. Charles on Dec. 19 stretched around the block. 

Erica Berger
A man and two women pose for a photo while wearing masks behind a distribution table.

UFT Staff Director Anthony Harmon helped out on Dec. 22 at Beulah Church of God in Christ Jesus in Brooklyn, where he's flanked by church administrator Carolyn Jackson (left) and event coordinator Virginia Lloyd before preparing lunches made by LaBegal Restaurant. 

Jonathan Fickies
A group poses behind a distribution table with halal food and water bottles.

UFT volunteers, restaurant workers and volunteers from the North Bronx Islamic Center are ready to hand out halal meals from Curry & Kebab, a local restaurant, on Jan. 6. 

Erica Berger
A woman and her daughter pose for a photo. Both are wearing masks.

Hazera Hussain, a UFT parent volunteer, and her daughter, who attends PS 56 were among the volunteers handing out lunches on Jan. 6 at the North Bronx Islamic Center. 

Erica Berger