Tony and Josefina Rosario opened the bodega Fefa’s Market in South Providence, which became an informal social service center and haven for newly arrived Hispanics trying to adjust to new lives.
Delaware News Journal
Comcast, the telecommunications giant, recently announced it was providing free internet access to low-income families in New Castle County to help them participate in educational opportunities and the digital economy.
The company s Lift Zones effort is part of its ongoing drive nationwide to bridge the digital equality gap.
In Delaware, the program will help approximately 600 low-income students get online, Comcast said.
Comcast is providing internet at these eight sites:
Greater Newark Boys & Girls Club (Bear)
Clarence Fraim Boys & Girls Club (Wilmington)
Latin American Community Center (Wilmington)
Kingswood Community Center (Wilmington)
Walnut Street YMCA (Wilmington)
West End Neighborhood House (Wilmington)
JPMorgan Chase Helps Delaware Restaurants Through Meal Program
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A meal donation program by JPMorgan Chase in Wilmington has helped to feed over 800 people and local restaurants since November 2020.
JPMorgan Chase launched a meal donation program to provide relief for minority-owned restaurants that are struggling financially in Wilmington and the surrounding area due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some of the restaurants, including Walt’s Chicken Express, Carmen’s Kitchen, The Chicken Spot, Desserts by Dana, Grapes Real Jamaican Cuisine, Celebrations on Market Street, Zoup and Russell’s Quality Foods, received relief by providing an expanded customer base through word-of-mouth marketing by local organizations that JPMorgan Chase supports.
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U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (in blue) of Delaware talks with members U.S. Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas. (courtesy Carper s office)
As hundreds of migrants seek refuge from the poverty and violence in Central America, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware says America’s appetite for drugs is partly to blame.
“We are complicit in their misery,” Carper said Wednesday morning outside the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington.
U.S. Sen. Tom Carper talks about his visit to the southern border during a news conference at outside the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington Wednesday morning. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY News)
April 3, 2021
Michael Hare
The Most Rev. W. Francis Malooly, DD, bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington, will receive the 2021 Monsignor Thomas J. Reese Award at Catholic Charities’ Annual Tribute Dinner, to be held Wednesday, Oct. 6.
Michael J. Hare, the 2020 recipient, will be presented with the 2020 award since the dinner last year was canceled due to COVID-19.
Created in 1989 in memory of Monsignor Thomas J. Reese, community activist and longtime director of Catholic Social Services, the forerunner of Catholic Charities, the award recognizes exemplary individuals who have demonstrated a deep commitment to promoting and restoring the well-being of people – Catholic Charities’ mission.