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Council Member Van Bramer Honors Mother Teresa’s Birthday With A Visit To Hour Children. 8/26/2010
Council Member Van Bramer Honors Mother Teresa’s Birthday With A Visit To Hour Children. 8/26/2010
St. Rita's Roman Catholic Church, Long Island City
Full video coverage and follow up Q&A are available in the left column in 6 segments of approximately three to five minutes each.
Part 1: Sr. Tesa Fitzgerald, Director of Hour Children at St. Rita's Roman Catholic Church, Long Island City 8/26/2010
Patt 2: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer will celebrate Mother Teresa’s Birthday by helping with the distribution of groceries to families at the Hour Children Food Pantry in Long Island City. 8/26/2010
Part 3: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer will celebrate Mother Teresa’s Birthday by helping with the distribution of groceries to families at the Hour Children Food Pantry in Long Island City. 8/26/2010
Part 4: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer will celebrate Mother Teresa’s Birthday by helping with the distribution of groceries to families at the Hour Children Food Pantry in Long Island City. 8/26/2010
Part 5: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer will celebrate Mother Teresa’s Birthday by helping with the distribution of groceries to families at the Hour Children Food Pantry in Long Island City. 8/26/2010
Part 6: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer will celebrate Mother Teresa’s Birthday by helping with the distribution of groceries to families at the Hour Children Food Pantry in Long Island City. 8/26/2010
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Long Island City, New York August 26,2010 -
 On Thursday, August 26th Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer celebrated Mother Teresa’s Birthday by helping with the distribution of groceries to families at the Hour Children Food Pantry in Long Island City.
Hour Children is a multi-faceted family service organization that provides housing, both permanent and transitional, and a wide array of supportive services that transform the lives of women and their families involved in the criminal justice system.
The “Day of Service” is part of a citywide initiative to celebrate and honor the Mother Teresa’s life through community inspired projects.
The Hour Children organization, which Council Member Van Bramer helped secure $5,000 in funding for this year, provides a multitude of family and supportive services that help transform the lives of formerly incarcerated women with children.
Council Member Van Bramer joined volunteers at the Hour Children Food Pantry to help distribute groceries and fresh produce to over 100 families. The Day of Service is part of a citywide initiative to celebrate and honor the Mother Teresa’s life through community inspired projects.
“Although the Empire State Building will not light up in honor of Mother Teresa’s birthday, her spirit will illuminate all year with the wonderful works of community service happening throughout our city today,” said Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer. “Hour Children and Sister Tesa Fitzgerald are doing amazing things in our neighborhoods and I am honored to serve my community by volunteering for such an outstanding organization.”
Since 1986, Hour Children (HC) has provided housing and supportive services to children and their mothers during and after their mother's incarceration. Women come to HC from NY State prison nurseries with an infant in their arms and most are also reuniting with older children. At Hour Children these small families are given a place to live and the opportunity to begin again in a loving and nurturing environment.
Hour Services to formerly incarcerated women include: Housing, Mental Health Counseling, Employment Training/Placement and Education Programs for the children in our pre-school or after school program. The majority have no resources so we also provide mothers with the small necessary things like clothing for themselves and their children, toothbrushes, MetroCards, diapers,cribs, strollers.
Hour Services in the prison include: Nursery Management, Advocacy, Parenting and Prevention
Domestic Violence classes, buses that bring children to visit from the boroughs and a child-centered
visiting area with toys, games and books that enhance mother/child visits.
Hour Services to the local community include:
- a. A mentoring program that provides a mentor to children with a parent in prison and live in foster care or with family;
- b. Thrift shops that provide much-needed resources for our families and to the local community;
- c. Hour Community Outreach/Food Panty that provides food and services to the elderly, disabled and needy who live in our neighborhood.
For more information about Hour Children. please contact:
Hour Children Executive Director
Sr. Tesa Fitzgerald
Saint Rita's Church
36-49 11th Street
Long Island City, NY
Mother Teresa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu[1] (pronounced [aɡˈnÉ›s ˈɡɔndÊ’e bÉ”jaˈdÊ’iu]), was a Catholic nun of Albanian[2][3] ethnicity and Indian citizenship,[4] who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.[5][6]
By the 1970s, she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary and book Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counselling programs, orphanages, and schools.
She has been praised by many individuals, governments and organizations; however, she has also faced a diverse range of criticism. These include objections by various individuals and groups, including Christopher Hitchens, Michael Parenti, Aroup Chatterjee, Vishva Hindu Parishad, against the proselytizing focus of her work including a strong stance against contraception and abortion, a belief in the spiritual goodness of poverty and alleged baptisms of the dying. Medical journals also criticised the standard of medical care in her hospices and concerns were raised about the opaque nature in which donated money was spent.
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Council Member Van Bramer Honors Mother Teresa’s Birthday With A Visit To Hour Children. 8/26/2010
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Council Member Van Bramer Honors Mother Teresa’s Birthday With A Visit To Hour Children. 8/26/2010
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St. Rita's Roman Catholic Church, Long Island City
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Mother Teresa
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(L) Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer (R) Sr. Tesa Fitzgerald
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OURLIC PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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FREE ASSISTANCE FOR EMPLOYERS!
(Yes, you read that right!)
Hour Children's "Hour Working Women Program" (HWWP) offers employers the opportunity to hire our women at NO COST for an agreed period of time. If you are pleased with our hirees, then you can hire (after you assess their abilities) or you can say, "No, thank you." With the current economic climate, we understand your needs and think we can match your needs with a qualified, reliable, hardworking employee. We pre-screen all recommended candidates. Our fields of interest are: Retailing and Marketing, Receptionist, Building Maintenance, and Housekeeping.
Please call me for more information: Johanna Flores, Employment Coordinator of HWWP at 718 433 4724 ext. 22, or jflores@hourchildren.org
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