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Church, volunteers reach out to Sandy victims
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Anna Kooiman reports from New York
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- Date Nov 27, 2012
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And thank god and -- -- people who luckily.
Nobody came together.
And noble book to us that -- guys.
Know yours but -- but it been.
The storm everybody can have him in the wake of super storms in the rocket wrap it up brought in and out is Turkey ham and all the fixes.
Defeat a thousand folks in need -- the first congregational church -- far broccoli.
-- -- -- I have one -- -- open.
Previous years -- that 600 every charity suffering because is so much need and not enough dollars to go around.
The church looks very different than it has for the past eighteen years they've served meals.
The basement was flooded and their running the Thanksgiving operation using generator power when you take rides through here and Far Rockaway in Oceanside and.
And -- and not -- well.
Still massive devastation and.
Horrendous.
Eric Snow was in the dark for over a week it had flooding for eight to ten foot storm surge.
But he's teaching his kids that volunteering.
Is the reason for this season.
And it's no good and -- it out it will help other people.
Because really we thought that -- -- her bed -- other people are then they'll make -- good health and other.
The outreach is not just about -- It's also therapeutic for CD victims to talk to volunteers.
Many of them have been cold wet in the dark and alone.
For several weeks now.
They leave here they've had their bellies -- but they've also been able to share experiences.
And people are here to listen and I don't have.
Community is exactly that it's a community if one person needs help another -- there to -- you know.
The New York Giants football team is funding the outreach campaign in fact they're giving away some of their gear for free to try and keep the victims war.
As for the church it's a distribution -- serving between seventy in a hundred people daily since they opened on Election Day.
Giving away all sorts of freebies from food to blankets to baby formula in Queens New York an appointment Fox News.