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At the end of each year, InterFaith Works asks its community to collect gift baskets that we have historically given to refugee families resettled with us during the previous calendar year. This year, however, we had to approach the refugee program differently, because the government closed it in the third week of January.
InterFaith Works was able to resume our normal momentum for this project and expand it to include families in food pantries and individuals in nursing homes, in addition to the three weeks of arrivals we had for refugee families.
We not only met our goal, we exceeded it! Moments like this are what make my work so inspiring to me; when the going gets tough around us, our community always picks up!
Jennie Prouty is the community engagement manager for InterFaith Works in CNY. He has a collective background of 10 years of work for the community. She has degrees in business administration and psychology with a master’s degree in theology with a focus on comparative Abrahamic religions.
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