Red Hook Initiative board president discusses disproportionate impact of COVID-19
The Red Hook Initiative (RHI), which serves within Brooklyn’s largest public housing development, announced it is currently experiencing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19.
“Our multi-generational families — for no matter where we live, these are our families too — face life-altering choices on a daily basis: whether to send a grandchild to their job at a grocery store; whether to seek medical attention for an asthmatic parent; whether to buy food or to pay rent,” wrote RHI Board President Chris Cardona in a statement. “As the President of RHI’s Board of Directors, I am yet again witnessing the extraordinary response from our team to step up during a time of crisis and to meet the needs of RHI’s community of over 6,500 residents. We have deep neighborhood roots, and our team of 200 youth and adults — the vast majority of whom are from Red Hook — are on the ground and online around the clock.”
Cardona added that each weeknight, RHI’s Executive Director Jill Eisenhard sends an email to staff, cc’ing him.
