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March 17, 2020 Dear Friends, We have been blessed, through your generosity and the generous kindness of many, many others to be able to provide food, clothing shelter, health, hope and permanent homes to thousands of Staten Islanders over the last 38 years. Now we are fighting to stay alive while serving people in desperate need. With our solid core of senior citizen volunteers –understandably- hunkered down in their homes and at risk for the COVID-19 virus, we are struggling to maintain services to Staten Island’s most vulnerable. WE NEED FOOD. Supermarkets are turning away our appeals for food drives—too many people in the store; everyone buying up food for their families and neighbors. Food Bank NYC and City Harvest have stopped inter-state deliveries of food and produce. Elected officials are directing calls for emergency food to us. Churches who have hosted our volunteer shelters for years are now asking “can you foot the bill for disinfecting the space daily that we use to bed down homeless people each evening?” Workers are getting sick and self-quarantining. There is not a vinyl or latex glove in sight. Nor a mask. Nor hand sanitizer. Nor Lysol. “On back order for months,” we are told. And yet the people most at risk are the people who cannot wash their hands because they don’t have access to running water; they aren’t welcomed in diners to use the bathroom. They don’t have money for soap, even if they found running water. WE NEED CLEANERS AND CLEANING SUPPLIES. WE NEED to pay contractors who can clean. FAST. We need to find gloves and disinfectant and pay what and who we must to disinfect, if we are to continue feeding and sheltering the most vulnerable people on this island. WE NEED YOU. Please consider a one-time emergency donation to Project Hospitality so that we can help our neighbors in need make it through this unprecedented crisis. Our prayers are with you and your loved ones during these difficult times. Please be safe and call on us if we can be of assistance. Thank you for your consideration of this emergency request. Sincerely, Terry Troia Reverend Terry Troia President and CEO, Project Hospitality TO MAKE A DONATION: Mail checks payable to Project Hospitality to: Project Hospitality Attn: Resource Development 100 Park Avenue Staten Island, NY 10302 TO DONATE ONLINE, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.projecthospitality.org/one-time-donation/