MAP Pivots National Programs and Provides Emergency Meal Grants to Schools Nationally, While in Iran Their Prolific NGO Relief Arm Provides Vital Support

2024 Holiday Helping Hand

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Join us for Moms Against Poverty’s Holiday Helping Hand Giftwrapping and Toy Drive on December 15th, 2024. A special event dedicated to bringing joy to Bay Area children during the holiday season. This event will occur from 12 PM to 3 PM at Burlingame Parks & Recreation at 850 Burlingame Avenue, Burlingame, CA 94010. Your toy donations will help brighten the holidays for local children in need. Additional drop-off locations are available at the Burlingame Public Library – Main, Burlingame Library – Easton Branch, and the Moms Against Poverty Office at 851 Burlway Rd Ste 800, Burlingame, CA 94010.

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MAP Pivots National Programs and Provides Emergency Meal Grants to Schools Nationally, While in Iran Their Prolific NGO Relief Arm Provides Vital Support

CISION – PR Newswire

Relief operations in Iran include sourcing and distributing critical supplies and medical equipment, emergency lifeline support and meals to orphanages and homeless shelters. In the U.S., MAP joins Uber and others to address rampant food insecurity due to the closure of schools.

SAN FRANCISCOApril 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ashkan Taghipur, Executive Director of MAP’s NGO arm in Tehran, reports, “I think Iran’s the only country tackling the advanced mind-karate version of this pandemic challenge. Being cut from the global economy since 2018 has critically depleted vital medical supplies, equipment, and medicines in Iran, pre-pandemic. We are lacking ventilators everywhere!” MAP has engaged front-line disaster relief activities in Iran since 2010 (in addition to executing over 177 projects, ranging from orphanages to schools and vocational centers.)   

Bay Area-based MAP recently pledged a total of  $50k to DC and SF schools. The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) COVID-­19 Response Fund received 28K to provide 10,000 emergency meals during school closures,; MAP is leading Okcoin, Uber, and others to combat growing food insecurity. Another grant went to DC Central Kitchen in a joint effort to whip up 20,000 meals. And other grants are in the works.  

“We will continue to pivot our Nutritional Outreach and Hygiene Programs to support schools nationally to provide emergency meals, while accommodating the increased needs for our church partners and centers nationally,” said MAP COO Ladan Judge

StandUp For Kids DC, an at-risk youth non-profit also in D.C. and longterm partner of MAP, is getting fundamental needs otherwise inaccessible. “MAP has been fundamental in providing essential supplies to at-risk youth during a time where it has been nearly impossible to get the supplies elsewhere. MAP has been a consistent lifeline,” says Josh Blum with StandUp for Kids DC.

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