St. John’s University took over the sponsorship of the
Bread and Life program, New
York City’s second largest food bank, and will begin construction
of a new facility in Brooklyn that will be twice as large as its
Bedford-Stuyvesant site. As part of St. John’s, Bread and Life
will be able to offer more services to a greater number of the
city’s homeless and poor. The organization, inspired by the legacy
of St. Vincent, provides legal, spiritual, nutritional and family
counseling and serves 125,000 meals weekly. Some 200 St. John’s
students volunteered this year serving meals in the Bread &
Life soup kitchen.