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November 29, 2021
“In Southeast I’m meeting a different patient,” Myles said. “I’m meeting some patients who have had routine care, but oftentimes clinics open and close in Southeast. I just spoke with a potential patient who had had no dental care for the last 30 years.”
November 18, 2021
Allison Miles-Lee, a managing attorney at Bread for the City, describes a confusing process for people she’s tried to help recertify. Those who submit their application materials in person, like Ventura did, don’t get a receipt or confirmation number.
November 18, 2021
“Dr. King remains the voice I hear in my head,” he told me. The assassination of the civil rights leader in 1968 crystallized Jones’s desire to help people in need.
November 08, 2021
Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs (MOLA) are proud to announce that a combined $1.2 million in grant funding has been awarded to 71 community-based organizations including Bread for the City.
November 02, 2021
"When people get dentures, the pride they feel when they can smile, it's just -- it's heartbreaking," said Randi Abramson, chief medical officer at Bread for the City.
November 02, 2021
Darnell Wainwright is a proud man. He says so himself as he rummages around in the bag of groceries he just got from the charity Bread for the City in front of its municipal-looking building in the Shaw neighborhood in the heart of Washington. He pulls a lettuce head out of the brown paper bag. It's big and round, but he can have it in his hand.
October 29, 2021
After years of having to pay for transportation to cross the Anacostia River to receive health care, residents of wards 7 and 8, largely disconnected by the Anacostia River from DC’s high-quality health facilities, have a new option.