Sanitation Samaritan Helps Hungry
By AnnMarie Costella |
February 6th, 2008 | Share This
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TOM TERRIFIC: Sanitation Worker Tom Neve started Reaching Out Community Services, a volunteer-run food pantry in Bensonhurst that provides meals to 1,400 Brooklynites every month. AnnMarie Costella and Mellissa Seecharan report.
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Unlike most great stories, this one begins in the trash.
Tom Neve’s discovery of an escalating homeless population along his sanitation route was an image that he just couldn’t throw away.
Without any experience or funding, this extraordinary garbage man began a 16-year journey of helping others.
