Ethics for Children Service Project – Food Insecurity

Ethics for Children Service Project – Food Insecurity

In November the service project that our Ethics for Children program participated in was related to the issue of food insecurity. Our goal was to stock the Community Fridge located beside the Wyckoff Museum (5816 Clarendon Road, Canarsie). 

Students gathered at the BSEC Building to pack grab-and-go lunches. They decorated the bags, then packed them to overflowing. Their efforts yielded 30 nutritious lunches complete with beverages and homemade cookies! Thanks to additional donations collected by our EfC families as well as the larger BSEC community we were also able to fully stock the pantry shelves with nonperishables. We even made sure that the Little Free Library was full! 

BSEC has Hope

BSEC has Hope

By Kim Brandon

Thank you BSEC members for contributing such delicious food and volunteering for the Hope Dinner’s Thanksgiving dinner bags.
This was the 29th Hope Thanksgiving dinner and the 35 dinner bags were overstuffed with wonderful cooked food and baked goods.  You name it we had it.
Thank you Rita Wilson for the tasty lemon cakes
Paul Heymont for dozens of delectable home-baked cookies and breads.
Fiona Boneham for baking us scrumptious muffins
Tom’s donation that covered two pork shoulders and a super large tray of collard greens
Vandra Thorburn for her giant pans of yummy vegetarian homemade herb stuffing and for being our official greeter for the event.
Kim Brandon for granny apple bread pudding for other desserts
We also want to thank all those who offered to contribute and things didn’t line up – but will be ready for the December bags.  Thank you!
Thank you all so much for making this dinner so abundant.
The Hope Dinner was created by Janine Dietz, Donna Roberts, and others almost 30 years ago to help create community for people with HIV/AIDS.  Janine will be speaking at our December 10th Platform about lessons learned in this crisis that may help us with the current pandemic.

Screening of “NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD” at BSEC

Screening of “NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD” at BSEC

A week ago, on October 28, 2022, we had an in-person screening of the movie “Not in My Neighborhood” by Kurt Otabenga Orderson, in co-sponsorship with Imani House.
Several of our members, Imani house friends as well as people from communities affected by the ill effects of gentrification, attended the screening and participated in the Q&A afterward.
Thank you to all who helped make this beautiful community event happen at our building.

Ethics for Children Service Project – Animal Shelter

Ethics for Children Service Project – Animal Shelter

Putting our ethics into action is an integral component of the Ethics for Children program. This year it quickly became apparent that animal welfare is a shared passion among our families, so our first service project centered around that theme.

On the second Sunday of October, we came together at the BSEC building where we made cat, dog and rabbit toys to donate to the Brooklyn Animal Care Center and the Itty Bitty City Kitties rescue. We also made drawings of animals in the shelter to help bring attention to their profiles. (You can still view some of these drawing on the shelter’s Community Kids page: https://www.nycacc.org/get-involved/communitykids)  The special guests of the day were the kittens who were in foster care, growing big enough to move on to their fur-ever homes.