Town officials attend Night in White event Samba 360 aids Ukraine

Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and Council Member Mariann Dalimonte attended the 12th Annual Night in White event on July 20 at the North Hempstead Country Club.

This year’s event honored Daniel Ryan with event proceeds beneftting Spectrum Designs Foundation and the Nicholas Center. Also in attendance was state Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti.

Town ofcials recognized Daniel Ryan for his work with his organization, Unsung

Sibling Foundation. His foundation has helped many siblings of special needs individuals along with veterans of military services.

Spectrum Designs Foundation is a non-proft organization that has been dedicated to supporting individuals with Autism and related developmental disabilities in the workforce. Spectrum Designs Foundation is overseen by Nicholas Center. Nicholas Center is an organization that facilitates the services of Spectrum Design.

After many months of collecting soccer gear and packing the gear into heavy-duty boxes designed for shipping, Samba 360 shipped ten boxes last Monday to Ukraine for children who attend the Sherbanksa School in Odessa.

This was only possible through the coordination of working closely with an amazing Manhasset-based Ukrainian family and with the New Jersey-based Dnipro Shipping Company.

The gear should arrive before the middle of September and sent will be used by children who have been impacted by war.

This is the second time Samba 360 shipped supplies to Ukraine. Last March, 9 boxes were sent to Ukraine. Fortunately, they all arrived about a month later and the donations were quickly distributed to children in Odessa.

We can’t say thank you enough to Dnipro Shipping Company.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the staf at Dnipro have put in countless hours receiving, processing, sorting and shipping humanitarian aid for Ukrainian families. Since February 2022, the total weight of humanitarian aid that was shipped by sea and by air exceeds 700 tons!

Samba 360 is an all-volunteer organization based in Jericho. Samba 360 is501c3 nonproft group working in cooperation with many other charities. The primary mission of Samba 360 is to provide under-served children with opportunities by providing them with donated sports equipment.

Samba 360 collects new and used gear for distribution nationally and abroad. Samba 360 is registered with the New York State Charities Bureau of the New York State Attorney General Ofce as a Not-for-proft charitable corporation.

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and Council Member Mariann Dalimonte honor Daniel Ryan for long time support of the Nicholas Center.

Samba 360 was founded in 2013 by Shawn Brown.

Since 2013, Samba 360 has given away more than 8,000 soccer balls, uniforms, cleats, sneakers and more to under- served communities.

From communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil to Haiti to the Shinnecock Reservation on Long Island to the Dunbar Community Center in Syracuse, New York to West Africa, Samba 360 has made a diference.

Most recently Samba 360 donated more than 200 basketball uniforms to the Washington Heights/Inwood summer basketball program of New York City, more than 200 soccer balls and more 100 soccer cleats to the Open Field, which helps marginalized communities in Pittsburgh, Penn., have access to soccer and sports and last winter Samba 360 provided the Police Athletic League of Hempstead, New York with dozens of new sweatshirts, new running jackets and more than a hundred new t-shirts. For more information, please visit:www.samba360.orgor on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/samba360. org or on Instagram at @gosamba360.