Scores of families left with bags of new or gently used clothes from an annual coat giveaway hosted by Wallkill East Rotary in Middletown on Nov. 9.
Juanita Velazquez, a single mother of three children in a local middle school, told The Epoch Times the giveaway reduces her financial burdens as she tries to get back on her feet.
“Everybody in the world has good days and bad days,” said Velazquez, who moved to the United States from Mexico four years ago and settled down in Middletown through the financial assistance of a federal rental housing program called Section 8.
“This coat drive is helping me because I can maybe buy one [for each of my kids at stores] and get a free one here so that when I wash one, they have another one [as a backup],” she said….