Brooklyn nonprofit that feeds hungry New Yorkers seeks public’s help after delivery van stolen

A Brooklyn nonprofit’s ability to provide meals and other requirements to New Yorkers in will need is becoming impacted after they say the group’s cargo van was stolen.

“We returned it ideal more than there, and then the upcoming morning when we arrived by, I was like, ‘Hey where’s our van?'” stated Kendra Chiu, of North Brooklyn Angels, referring to the cargo van stolen in plain sight. “It was just really weird due to the fact it was locked. The keys were in the kitchen and we experienced to file a police report.”

Chiu and Neal Sheehan explained they made use of the van to distribute meals to the neighborhood on Monday. But when Tuesday arrived, they say the van they parked outside of a church on Havemeyer Road was nowhere to be identified.

“It is really nevertheless kind of surreal that this would come about mainly because individuals in the group know us and it can be not like it is really a actually high price auto, but it really is high worth to us because we run a mobile soup kitchen area,” Chiu stated.

The Angels rely on the van every day to make their rounds to people in want by donating meals, little one products, and far more.

As the organization now struggles to make those people deliveries, the Angels mentioned they’re turning lemons to lemonade.

“We have heard from Sen. Schumer, and we have heard from Congresswoman Maloney and they are going to be giving us some means 4 or five months from now, so we need to be ready to switch the van. But in the short run, we are just going to inquire the community to assist. If you have a van sitting all over, if you want to rent a van for us, nearly anything you can do to help,” Sheehan said.

The Angels stated that in the previous two times, they’ve experienced an outpouring of aid from the neighborhood on the lookout for any way to assist out in their time of want.

They are inquiring any individual who sees the van to call them.