Nonprofit working to overcome Covid

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — For 1 nonprofit, the emergence successful COVID-19 cases is forcing it to accommodate to conscionable its Christmas goal.

Volunteers are putting successful 12-hour days to get presents wrapped successful clip for the holiday.

“Hearts of Gold helps stateless moms and kids done occupation grooming and done tutoring for the kids and astatine Christmas we ever enactment unneurotic Christmas bags for the kids and the moms,” Hearts of Gold unpaid manager Bernadette DeCelle said.

It hasn’t been casual this year. Over the weekend, much and much volunteers called to cancel.

“Because radical are getting tense oregon their kids got exposed astatine schoolhouse and present they’re not feeling similar it’s harmless to come,” DeCelle said.

There are besides caller hurdles similar the biggest structure the nonprofit works with going into lockdown.

“Twenty clients with COVID, that came down with COVID yesterday. So it conscionable unopen down each the plans. It’s conscionable not safe,” DeCelle said.

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But the radical is determined to get gifts and wintertime covering to 400 kids and their mothers crossed six stateless shelters. Its caller strategy is to usage volunteers’ ain cars to thrust presents to the locations.

“The radical astatine the structure helped america unpack and past they volition present to each door, to each mom, and past with their meals,” programme coordinator Laura Cashel said.

“COVID oregon nary COVID, you’re going to get these gifts to these kids?” CBS2’s Leah Mishkin said.

“Yeah, it’s agelong nights, but it’s going to beryllium truthful worthy it,” Cashel said.

Hearts of Gold laminitis and CEO Deborah Koenigsberger uses a thrift store to rise wealth for her nonprofit. She said she has been hiring the mothers to assistance get them backmost connected their feet for 8 years.

“We don’t person to interest astir redeeming the world, due to the fact that you tin conscionable prevention your portion of the world,” Koenigsberger said. “You spot radical emergence to the juncture and travel retired and go, ‘What tin we do? We’ll enactment connected a mask. We’ll sanitize. We privation to help.'”

The laminitis of Hearts of Gold said different manager of a antithetic structure reached retired to her asking if her enactment could present presents there, too. The structure has 57 kids determination and Koenigsberger said she’s going to bash everything imaginable to fig retired however to get the funds to marque that happen.

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CBS2’s Leah Mishkin contributed to this report.