LA PEQUEÑA DESPENSA
As the pandemic continues to challenge our communities we hope to raise enough money each month to help our neighbors overcome this crisis. Please join us in helping LA PEQUEÑA DESPENSA meet their monthly goals by contributing any amount via our GoFundMe drive.
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We are just people helping people. We are from Jackson Heights, Corona, East Elmhurst, Woodside, and Astoria. We are from Brooklyn. We are from the Bronx. We are neighbors, families, friends.
We are La Pequeña Despensa (The Little Pantry). We are guidance counsellors, teachers, community activists, and civil servants. We are just people who came together understanding that our community is facing extreme anxiety as the pandemic endures. We decided that together, we can help!
We began with a few families, a few phone calls, and 50 bags packed with flour, rice, sugar, beans...the necessities ensuring mealtime would be a source of comfort for the body and a balm to the soul. With a bit more outreach and word of mouth, these past few months we were able to raise $6000.00 allowing us to distribute 300 bags of groceries to 100 families.
We are hands on. No formula, no script, just creative ingenuity. We shop, pack, and deliver the essentials door to door, person to person. Maintaining social distance and respecting the integrity and privacy of each family, our small network of 6 volunteers meets each week to coordinate, share resources and solutions, expanding our outreach within the Latinx community and beyond.
This week there is the promise of basics to help nourish our community one family at a time. La Pequeña Despensa: small things mean so much, small things make a difference.
- Gay Feldman
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Somos personas que simplemente ayudamos a la gente. Somos de Jackson Heights, Corona, East Elmhurst, Woodside, y Astoria. Somos de Brooklyn y somos del Bronx. Somos vecinos, familiares y amigos.
Somos La Pequeña Despensa. Nosotros somos consejeros, maestros, activistas comunitarios y funcionarios. Somos sólo personas que se unieron entendiendo que nuestra comunidad se enfrenta a una ansiedad extrema mientras la pandemia perdura. ¡Decidimos que juntos podemos ayudar!
Comenzamos con algunas familias, unas cuantas llamadas telefónicas y 50 bolsas empacadas con harina, arroz, azúcar, frijoles...las necesidades para asegurar la hora de la comida sería una fuente de consuelo para el cuerpo y un bálsamo para el alma. Con un poco más de alcance y de boca a boca, estas últimas semanas pudimos recaudar $3000.00 permitiéndonos distribuir 300 bolsas de comestibles a 100 familias.
Somos prácticos. Sin fórmula, sin guión, sólo ingenio creativo. Compramos, empacamos y entregamos lo esencial: puerta a puerta, persona a persona. Manteniendo la distancia social y respetando la integridad y privacidad de cada familia, nuestra pequeña red de 6 voluntarios se reúne cada semana para coordinar, compartir recursos y soluciones, ampliando nuestro alcance dentro de la comunidad Latina y más allá.
Esta semana existe la promesa de lo básico para ayudar a nutrir a nuestra comunidad una familia a la vez. La Pequeña Despensa: cosas pequeñas significan tanto, cosas pequeñas que marcan la diferencia.
LA PEQUEÑA DESPENSA is part of Katzenstein’s larger body of work, The Human Experience, a collection of his visual explorations that span over the past 30 years. His work presents the positive aspects of peoples and cultures, and takes the viewer on countless journeys near and far.