About
Wilton Interfaith Action Committee
(Wi-Act)
“We Act Together for Good!”
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Composed of members of 11 faith institutions, Christian, Hindu, Jewish & Muslim, in
Wilton, Connecticut
Our
Story
Who We Are and What We Do
Wi-Act (Wilton Interfaith Action Committee) is comprised of a 31 member governing board, its Steering Committee, representing congregants of 11 Wilton faith institutions – Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim.
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Wi-Act has been active since 2011, living up to its motto, “We Act Together for Good.” Our focus is threefold: packaging meals for starving children worldwide, refugee resettlement, and directly supporting children with cystic fibrosis.
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Meal Packaging
Since 2011 Wi-Act and the greater Wilton community has gathered on the third Saturday in October to support Rise Against Hunger. In 2023 about 600 volunteers packaged 137,000 meals. That is enough to feed 375 children for a year in a school setting where they are nourished in body and in mind. To date we have packaged more than 1.5 Million meals. This is reputed to be the largest single-day volunteer event in New England.
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As important as the meals are for the recipients, the joy in serving is unmatched as volunteers are intergenerational including whole families – children, their parents and grandparents -- all joining in.
The only way to truly appreciate this amazing meal packaging event is to participate.
This three minute video by Ella Breitenbach comes as close as it gets to actually being there!
Wi-Act: 1.5 Million Meals and Counting
Refugee Resettlement
Wi-Act does refugee resettlement work, now with its third family in a dozen years.
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Our first family was from Iraq with a husband who was a translator for the U.S. Army who was with us in Wilton for 18 months and then moved to Stamford. Our second family was a Syrian widowed mother and her five young children who continue to live in Wilton and are doing very well
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With the Ukrainian crisis, there are new needs, and Wi-Act responded by sponsoring a Ukrainian mother and her ten-year-old son. (Her husband needed to stay behind in Ukraine.)
As with all of its refugee families, Wi-Act provides housing, meals, ESL instruction, children’s educational liaison, and other support to help the family achieve full independence.
CF Bridge of Hope
Wi-Act also helps in cystic fibrosis (CF) work for child sufferers from countries where advanced CF treatment is unavailable.
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Treatment given in the Stamford pulmonology clinic of Wilton residents and two Wi-Act Steering Committee members, Dr. Hossein Sadeghi and Dr. Golnar Raissi -- accompanied by a year’s supply of donated medications -- can lead to an entirely different result.
Dr. Sadeghi is a nationally recognized pediatric pulmonologist on the faculty of Columbia University Medical School, and both he and Dr. Raissi donate their time and professional skills to this work.
Wi-Act has been involved in this CF work for eight years now. Its volunteers provide housing, meals and transportation to the clinic for each child and a parent during the approximately three weeks each patient is here.
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You can volunteer with Wi-ACT to help with meals, lodging, and transportation to and from the Stamford.
To volunteer, go to https://signup.com/go/zWRVxSH .