The pandemic has made the
holidays a lot harder on many families, especially on grandparents who are the
primary caregivers of grandkids.
So as part of her annual
Angel Project, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers)
collected gifts from 200 local volunteers to fulfill the Christmas wish lists
of 200 caregivers. “Many times, these grandparents
have so little of their own, but they would not
want to lose their children to foster care, so they take them in. And a lot of
times, these grandparents are choosing between
whether to get their medicines or feed their children, they’re making some very
hard choices,” says Stewart-Cousins.
Two of these grandparents
received their gifts today in Yonkers. Sharon Johnson is raising two of
her grandkids and her mother, Marcia, is raising one grandchild as well. “It
felt good being given something, because we’re always giving, not that I mind
it, but it felt good to receive, because I was not expecting anything,” says
Johnson.
Here are the Yonkers
nonprofits that connected the Angel Project with deserving grandparents.
- Family
Service Society Yonkers
- Family
Ties
- YWCA
Yonkers
- Calvary
Baptist Church
- Westchester
County Department of Social Services
- Theodore
Young Community Center
- Slater
Center
- Nepperhan
Community Center
- Christian
Love Tabernacle
- Community
Baptist Church
- Metropolitan
AMEZ Church