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Dear Friends of Lutheran Disaster Response of New York:
Here’s the February 29th edition of Comfort & Renew Online, a monthly e-newsletter provided by LDRNY. If you have something to share, please drop an email to mikki@LDRNY.org .
This is the second-to-last issue of the Comfort & Renew eletter. LDRNY will send its final email to you in March. We’re grateful to all our subscribers over the past seven years, and thank you for your interest in our ministry. Without your interest, donations and support, we couldn’t have fulfilled our mission.
As most of you probably have realized, LDRNY is winding down. It was initially funded through 2008, and is today, one of the last remaining faith-based organizations still helping those affected by Sept. 11.
It will officially cease operations in October, and Lutheran Social Services of New York will continue as the local disaster affiliate of Lutheran Disaster Response. LDRNY records will be sent to the archives of the Metropolitan New York Synod, one of LDRNY’s founding organzations, which are housed at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y.
Mikki Baloy, Director of Operations, will remain on staff through November. She says, “Just because we are closing our doors, doesn’t mean that there aren’t still people in need.” She urges all LDRNY supporters to contact their state legislators to push for continuance of Sept. 11 assistance.
LDRNY has been the lead agency and funder of several spin-off organizations, and they will continue on. Faithful Response, a counseling program to help first-responders on Long Island still struggling with issues, and New Ground, a day camp for children, will fulfill their missions in the spirit that they were founded. Without assistance from LDRNY, these organizations would never have gotten off the ground.
The LDRNY website – www.LDNRY.org -- which is still getting more than 2,000 hits per month – will live on, as a memory to those who have passed, and as encouragement for all as we go forward.
If you have any questions about future plans, feel free to contact Mikki Baloy at mikki@ldrny.org.
Work with the Unmet Needs Roundtable
After distributing more than $1.1M in direct financial assistance, LDRNY announced this month that it will no longer be a regular donor at the 9/11 Unmet Needs Roundtable. LDRNY was a founder of the Roundtable at its inception in early 2002. The Roundtable initially met at the Park Place offices of Lutheran Social Services of New York, and most recently gathered at the Comfort and Renew Center, LDRNY's offices near Ground Zero. LDRNY Director of Operations Mikki Baloy said, "I am really humbled and gratified to look back on these years of service to an underserved community. So much of what we have tried to do here is to help people as directly as possible, and since 2002, the Roundtable has been the forum for exactly that. LDRNY has been able to assist more than 600 families and individuals impacted by 9/11, and heard the stories of an even greater number, and it's been both a sobering responsibility and a wonderful privilege." The Roundtable is still assisting clients, under the auspices of NYDIS and a collaboration of other casework and donor agencies. For more on the Unmet Needs Roundtable, http://www.ldrny.org/topnews/topnews_UNRContinues.html or http://www.nydis.org/unmetneeds/1.php
Remembering the 1993 bombing at World Trade Center
Fifteen years ago on Feb. 26, at 12:18 p.m., terrorists detonated 500 pounds of explosives in a rental van in the parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six victims and injuring 1000. In the coming months, http://www.national911memorial.org/ will examine terrorist attacks before and after Sept. 11, 2001. The website will feature a series entitled, “9/11 in Context.” The series will provide information aimed at demonstrating how 9/11 exists within the context of a continuing global story, of which other related terrorist attacks are also a part. The series will initially focus on the first attack on the World Trade Center - the bombing of Feb. 26, 1993.
LDRNY contact info
To contact LDRNY, call 1-866-864-1600, or send an email to Mikki@ldrny.org. Visit the website for information on any of our programs – www.LDRNY.org.
LDRNY
22 Cortlandt St. 10007
New York, NY
1-866-864-1600
212-406-9736
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