Meet the volunteers who launched a plan to feed homeless people in N.J. as pandemic hit
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
A lunch guest of Care and Share Meals at the Trinity First Hope Center in Millville helps himself to some to-go selections, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.Al Amrhein | For NJ Advance Media
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Cindi Cooke remembers the day last March when Gov. Phil Murphy announced his statewide stay-at-home order and closed all non-essential businesses.
“I received that very first night a phone call from a homeless gentleman and he was panicked,” the Millville resident recalls.
He had been kicked out of the place where he was staying because of coronavirus fears and needed help. Cooke met up with him and provided dinner.
For N.J.’s homeless, COVID pandemic brings new struggles as eviction ‘tsunami’ looms
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 28, 2021
Pamela Ortiz, who is staying at the Rescue Mission of Trenton, sits in the women s sleeping area, where the beds have been repositioned and now include plexiglass dividers during the pandemic. Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Angela Fields sees the writing on the wall.
This time last year, the organization she runs out of Hunterdon County one of the wealthiest counties in the nation was finding housing for four desperate families from their community who had nowhere to go.
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