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Metro World Child to distribute 60,000 Christmas presents in NYC through Operation Holiday Hope Drive
Dec. 9, 2020 - MarketWatch
Metro World Child to distribute 60,000 Christmas presents in NYC through Operation Holiday Hope Drive
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Metro World Child is an international, humanitarian organization serving communities in NYC and around the world for over 40 years. Our annual Christmas program, Operation Holiday Hope, allows us to show love by giving every child in our outreach programs around the world a gift at Christmas.
Last year, we were able to reach 270,000 children through Operation Holiday Hope and of that number we had distributed 30,000 gifts to children in New York City alone.
This year has brought so many disappointments during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and we want to bring Hope to as many children as possible. As such, we have set a new goal for ourselves by DOUBLING the number of presents and distributing 60,000 gifts to children in New York this Christmas!
To accomplish this challenging but exciting goal of 60,000 gifts, we need your help and support.
Metro World Child staff and volunteers from across New York have been working tirelessly for the past 2 weeks wrapping and distributing gifts already...
Food Pantries in Bushwick Prepare for Thanksgiving with Dreams of Whole Turkeys
November 16. 2020 - Bklyner
Local pantries that usually have no trouble providing whole turkeys to families are not sure they will have enough to give out this year.
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — Carlos and Anita Medina have 13-year-old twins at home, and the holidays will look different this year since Carlos has had far less work and Anita has stayed home to help the kids. They hope to bring home turkeys on Thanksgiving Day, but they won’t mind if the Thanksgiving meal is just chicken.
Food pantries across the city serve thousands of meals each Thanksgiving, but this year food banks in Bushwick, Brooklyn, expect to see longer lines than ever before. Local pantries that usually have no trouble providing whole turkeys to families are not sure they will have enough to give out this year.
According to a report by Food Bank NYC, nearly 1.2 million New Yorkers were food insecure before the pandemic. Since the pandemic started, there have been food shortages across the city, forcing the closure of 36% of the emergency food providers in Brooklyn alone. Bushwick pantries have felt these changes in recent months. Some pantries have longer lines as they become a resource for more and more people, while other pantries see fewer visitors because people are sick or unable to leave their homes. Despite these challenges, Bushwick’s pantries are doing their best to serve a Thanksgiving meal to anyone who walks by.
Pastor Bill Wilson interview with GOODTV
May 13, 2020 - Good TV (Taiwan)
Long Line Forms at Brooklyn Food Bank as Providers Struggle to Keep Up
May 5, 2020 - World Journal
Metro World Child providing food boxes to those in need. (Chinese text)
Long Line Forms at Brooklyn Food Bank as Providers Struggle to Keep Up
April 17, 2020 - Yahoo News
Food banks and pantries across New York declared a state of emergency Wednesday, April 15, due to a drop in supplies, volunteers, and critical funding during the coronavirus pandemic.
Footage shared by Metro World Child, a New York-based humanitarian organization, shows a long line forming down the street outside their Brooklyn food bank on Wednesday.
Metro World Child said that they had given out more than 3,000 food packages over the previous last week and a half. The organization appealed for further resources, saying it would need to provide double that number the following week due to the “enormous need”.
Metro World Child Philippines
April 08, 2020 - GoodTV
With the staff of Metro World Child, we traveled to the slums outside Manila, Philippines, for SIDEWALK SUNDAY SCHOOL!
Abandoned, shot but not defeated: The life of Bill Wilson, leader of global children's ministry
June 15, 2019 - The Christian Post
BROOKLYN, New York — It was just a quarter after 7 on a rainy Friday morning in May when I met Bill Wilson, founder of the largest children’s ministry in the world, at the headquarters of Metro World Child. He was dressed in a three-piece suit and seated at the communal housing lunchroom for breakfast before heading to his weekly leaders' meeting, where leaders from all over the world tune in to get a rundown of all that’s going on in the ministry.
I was asked to join Pastor Bill for breakfast. I greeted him with “Good morning, how are you?” To which the minister, a force of nature all on his own, responded: “It’s Friday!” I took it to mean TGIF, one day closer to Saturday, Wilson’s favorite day of the week.
Every Saturday for the last 50 years, Wilson has jumped on a yellow school bus and picked up inner city kids to take them to church.