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The foundation also helps build affordable housing and supports services for the homeless like shelters and food banks.
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Generators ran out of fuel, people ended up for days in shelters, food perished and was difficult to obtain, and towns spent millions of dollars getting back on their feet.
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The report recommended staging longer-term storm shelters equipped with showers and fresh food.
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Food banks and shelters pulled the meat from their shelves after the report.
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"The situation there is very bad, houses and shelters are crowded, the health situation is getting worse and they lack sufficient food, " said Altheir Ismail Ali, a community leader in the camp quoted by UNAMID.
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At the same time, he donates to food banks and to shelters for the indigent.
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He wants his 20-year-old firm, Give Something Back, to continue to contribute to local food banks and homeless shelters, among other causes.
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Some people are putting together "relief bags" of food and other items to distribute to those in shelters, while others were bringing canned goods, Lim said.
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To date, the garden has yielded thousands of pounds of produce that has been used to feed event guests, staff and the First Family at the White House, with further harvests donated to local food shelters.
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This year, NYCCAH volunteers and their partner nonprofits will serve meals, distribute food bags, stock food pantries where the low-income can buy discounted groceries and even clean up homeless shelters to commemorate MLK Jr.
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