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At Hempstead's Mary Brennan INN, Fighting Hunger

By Stuart Vincent
Nassau News Staff Writer

The Mary Brennan INN in Hempstead, operated by the Interfaith Nutrition Network, is the largest soup kitchen on Long Island. Volunteers prepare and serve a hot lunch five days a week for 300-400 guests. The INN also provides clothing, toiletries, food to take home and offers legal aid and health exams. The INN is one of the organizations fighting hunger on Long Island, where, according to a 2006 study, 259,000 people are hungry.

View Stuart Vincent's video coverage of the Mary Brennan INN in Hempstead by clicking the arrow on the embedded player below:

For more information on hunger on Long Island, please visit the following links:

  • A profile of the local people who are hungry, the causes of that hunger and the effects of hunger on those individuals, from Long Island Cares.
  • Read a comprehensive 2006 nationwide study of hunger by America's Second Harvest, the nation’s largest organization of emergency food providers, including local statistics. This page includes links to local and national reports and to press releases and articles on those reports.
  • To volunteer at the Mary Brennan INN, click here.

Stuart Vincent's slide show of photographs from his reporting on the Mary Brennan INN in Hempstead.

This multimedia article is the final project for Hofstra University's JRNL 215, a graduate course in web journalism.

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Posted by News Editor on January 16, 2008 02:59 PM |


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