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WaHi Diner, Nonprofit To Feed Healthcare Workers For A Week
WaHi Diner will make 150 meals a day for the nurses, doctors and other staff at the Columbia Medical Center with the help of two nonprofits.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — The WaHi Diner on Broadway will spend this week making more than 100 meals per day to keep healthcare workers at the neighboring Columbia University Medical Center fed during the coronavirus pandemic, a nonprofit helping the diner announced.
The Hellenic Foundation and the New York State Nurses Association have joined forced to help bring a week's worth of freshly-made meals to the New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center for its doctors, nurses and other medical staff, the foundation said.
"We hope to offer some assistance – and sustenance – to those battling this devastating illness on the front lines," said Hellenic Foundation Co-Founder Efstathios Valiotis. "We salute you and we join our fellow New Yorkers in expressing our deep appreciation.”
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The WaHi diner started preparing the 150 daily meals for hospital staff on Sunday and will continue to do so for the rest of the week. The meals will be delivered midday each day the foundation said.
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It is one of many of New York City's restaurants that have begun offering food or coffee to healthcare workers as they fight the coronavirus, which has infected 104,410 New York City residents as of Sunday evening.
The Hellenic Foundation also announced this week that they donated $50,000 to the FDNY’s EMS Help Fund, a non-profit helping families of the department’s EMS workers who are sickened, injured or financially struggling.
“Over the last month, with the massive spike in Coronavirus, New Yorkers have truly seen how irreplaceable the men and women of the FDNY EMS truly are to this city and its citizens," said Oren Brailzay, president of the FDNY’s EMS Local 2507. "From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to the members of FDNY’s EMS, and through this Fund we are here for your needs as well.”
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