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Brooklyn Public Library Adult Learning Centers provide free, innovative educational programs for adult learners and speakers of other languages. Adults build the skills needed to meet their personal, educational, and employment goals through books, technology, and interactive classroom instruction taught by professional and friendly instructors and tutors.
There are five Adult Learning Centers with full-time professional staff and volunteers who are ready to help you reach your goals with FREE programs and classes. Groups/classes are for participants 17 years and older who are below the high school level. Emphasis is placed on reading, writing, and HSE preparation. All programs and classes are available mornings, afternoons, evenings, and Saturdays.
Launched by Dr. Melony Samuels in 1988, Bed Stuy Campaign Against Hunger is a non-profit organization, working vigorously to end hunger in the Bedford-Stuyvesant / Brownsville / Ocean Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Providing emergency food, social services such as Food Stamp screening, and Brooklyn's only community focused urban garden, The Campaign Against Hunger gives both strength and dignity to the community.
Launched in 2014 by the Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation (NEBHDCo), Golden Harvest Choice Food Pantry offers food distribution. open to the public (ID required) every Tuesday and Thursday from 9am - 12pm, rain or shine. NEBHDCo’s mission is the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and homeownership opportunities, community and economic development initiatives, and human services that effect social change in central Brooklyn.
