Thank you Congresswoman Yvette Clarke!

Sesame Flyers would like to extend our gratitude towards Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke who championed funding for 15 projects that will directly benefit Brooklyn residents in New York’s 9th Congressional District. Sesame was awarded $750K to renovate our main office building on Church Avenue.

“Time and time again, the good people of Brooklyn have proven that, when they are provided the tools for success and the resources to reach it, they always will. I am proud to announce that fifteen community projects dear to me and invaluable to our community will receive significant funding for their continued growth and development with the passage of our FY23 appropriations bill. Brooklyn is a special family, and it is on an inexorable trajectory towards something bigger. I consider it the blessing and privilege of my career to fight to get it there,” said Congresswoman Clarke.

Youth Talent On Display At The Club House

On Saturday November 26th Gen Z’s Voices and Fist Full of Talent hosted a youth talent show. With youth across the boroughs of New York arriving to showcase their talents of singing, poetry spoken word, art, guitar-playing, the event truly illustrated the gifted abilities our adolescents carry. Samiah McWilliams who is 17 and Editor-IN-Chief of Gen Z’s Voices and coordinator of the event summarized it best: “Taking part in the fistful of talent was everything I could have dreamed of and more. Seeing people my age that met each other the same day, collaborate, and come together was mesmerizing. Experiencing firsthand how the minds of Gen Z work together and flow was simply magical. I have been left with enriching memories and excitement for our future events to come!

The Tree Of Love

There is something of the spirit of giving that is very powerful here, particularly at this time of year. Families who are in crisis, at a dark moment in their lives, at literally the darkest point of the year, touched by the kindness of strangers: a bit of light searching for them in the darkness, reassuring them that they as a family will move through the crisis into brighter, lighter days.

Initiated by the SFI Winthrop Beacon Parent Council nearly fifteen years ago, the Tree of Love begins with a Charlie Brown looking holiday tree. The tree is decorated with festive ornaments or “leaves”. Each leaf of the Tree of Love has a label on it that indicates a family composition with age and gender only.