Mike and Sue Nardozza are quite the humanitarian couple. Both are doing their share to help those less fortunate. Mike is a retired West Island teacher, while Sue works as a nurse in the ENT clinic headed by Dr. Mel Schloss at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
Recently, Mike took early retirement and started a cafe for street people.
Heart for the City, located at 2176A Ste. Catherine St., is open three days a week (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) and serves grilled cheese sandwiches, muffins and coffee to an average of 65 people each day. Financed by Evangel Church on Closse Street, the cafe is presently seeking financial donations from individuals or companies with a heart for the city’s needy. He also operates a second-hand clothing store for refugees and street people under the name Heart for the Nations, where the clothes are given out at no cost.
As for Sue, she devotes her energy to helping orphans, street kids and homeless men and women in the Ukraine. She initially went to Ukraine in 2002 to help renovate an infirmary in an all-girls orphanage about 40 minutes away from Chernobyl.
“We were eight women from the Montreal area, three of whom work at the Children’s Hospital. My older sister had organized this trip,” says Sue.
“We helped make the living conditions of this orphanage better. My husband went that same summer and ran a camp for 120 kids, some were orphans and the others came from very poor homes, and after that we have returned yearly together with teams of college and university students. We have raised money to feed the homeless, and the many street kids for two years now and helped raise money to renovate a drug rehab center and two other buildings.”
AROUND AND ABOUT: The Suburban’s business columnist David Lisbona recently stepped away from the presidency of the Generations Foundation and started up the Nellie Philanthropy Foundation, “a charity for charities,” as he calls it.
“I am so proud of what we were able to accomplish at the Generations Foundation,” he says. “We are now feeding over 6,200 kids per day and our brand has never been stronger in the community.”... Members of the Maimonides Geriatric Centre Auxiliary (www.maimonides.net) are selling gorgeous hand-crafted matzah covers they designed themselves. They are available in the Maimonides Gift Shop. Proceeds will go towards improving programs and services for the residents… The Montreal Chapter of Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University will sponsor a lecture entitled Live Longer & Better sponsored by Apotex. Dr. Serge Gauthier will discuss the latest in prevention and treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease on Wed., March 28 (7:30 p.m.), at the Shaare Zion Congregation (5575 Cote St. Luc Rd.). The lecture is free but the public is asked to reserve a seat by calling 514-937-8927 or e-mailing bgumontreal@sympatico.ca... Maura Hoppenheim heads a committee that is planning a 25th Bialik High School reunion. Maura is looking for some lost grads, so please e-mail her at bialik1982@hotmail.com.
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2007-03-07 12:37:22
