Free COVID-19 supplies are available
Gifted Hearts is giving homemade face masks and liquid hand soap, free of charge,
to those in need in our local community in Long Island, New York.
Northport, Centerport, Huntington, Huntington Station, and Kings Park residents may contact us to arrange for pickup. For those seniors who are not able to drive, we will drop off to you.
Contact Charlotte by voice or text at (631) 431-8941.
Our hearts and prayers to you and your families. We’re all in this together!
Stay safe and be well.
Covid Angel Project
Dr. Charlotte Rhee, the mother of TJ and Isabella who founded the Gifted Hearts charity, has started a project giving “angels of hope” to front-line healthcare workers as a recognition of their work and an effort to help keep them safe. The keyrings are assembled at her office, packaged by her 85-year-old mother, and blessed by a chaplain before being distributed.
You can learn more about the Covid Angel Project, and get involved, at the website Covid Angel Project. You can also joined the Facebook group Covid Angel Project, and learn more at a News 12 Long Island post on Facebook, “Doctor from Northport starts COVID Angel Project to help lift coworkers’ spirits.”
The charity was founded by two children.
TJ and Isabella
Gifted Hearts, a 501c charity, provides medical care packs, school supplies, and essential living items to children locally and around the world.
The charity was founded in 2015 by two children. Brother and sister TJ and Isabella Manfuso, residing on Long Island, NY, have parents who are avid travelers. TJ and Isabella have been fortunate to have traveled with their parents to many countries.
Through their travels, they discovered that many children lack basic needs such as school supplies and medical care. From their experiences they were inspired to form the Gifted Hearts charity. To date they have provided supplies to Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, as well as to their local community in Huntington, NY.
The Manfuso Family, 2019
MISSIONS
Gifted Hearts has sponsored numerous charity missions in various parts of the world. Our recent events are pictured below.
Previous charity missions by Gifted Hearts through the years can be seen in Previous Missions.
KABACAN, TUAEL, and PRESIDENT ROXAS, PHILIPPINES
Holiday Giveaway
December, 2021
Numerous individuals and families had a brighter holiday thanks to Gifted Hearts and A way fellowship.
Preparations and giveaway
Happy families!
TUAEL, PHILIPPINES
Holiday Giveaway
December 24, 2020
Gifted Hearts and A way fellowship provided holiday food and household items to 60 families.
KABACAN, PHILIPPINES
Holiday Giveaway
December 23, 2020
Gifted Hearts, with Philippines hostess Rachel Stauffer, and A way fellowship partnered to provide food, household items, and a dessert chiffon cake to 75 local families.
SANTA LUCIA, ECUADOR
Elementary School Playground
April, 2019
Gifted Hearts and students of Sacred Heart University provided a new playground for the students of Santa Lucia Elementary School.
KABACAN, PHILIPPINES
March 17, 2019
Local residents met at the home of Rachel’s relatives, Rex and Jonah Acelar, for a distribution of school supplies and toys, and food items. A widow with three children, and a classmate of Rachel’s whom she hadn’t seen in 40 years who is a widow with five children, were among the grateful recipients.
TUAEL, PHILIPPINES
Barangay Center
March 17, 2019
Tuael is a fertile growing area above the village of President Roxas in North Cotabato province. The Barangay Center kindly provided use of their gymnasium for the Gifted Hearts event, where the families of a local church received clothing and food items, and school supplies and toys. “Musical Chairs” and “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” were played for entertainment, and the attending families provided a yummy lunch. One single mother with no family was especially grateful for the gift of rice.
CABANGBANGAN, PHILIPPINES
Barangay Center
March 16, 2019
Gifted Hearts hostess in the Philippines Rachel Stauffer, with helpers, presented children with pencils, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and face cloths in Gifted Hearts backpacks. Children also received sandals, toys and candy, and families were given rice, sardines, noodles and laundry bars. A meal of sandwiches and juice was served, and games were played.
This event was particularly emotional, as some of the native children in this rural area had never worn shoes or used toothbrushes, and others were wearing broken shoes. The area had recently been flooded, and surplus books from TJ and Isabella were donated to the school.
CENTER MORICHES, USA
St. John the Evangelist Church
December 24, 2018 and January 6, 2019
Gifted Heart’s hostess Robyn Feld presented gifts to children at St. John the Evangelist Church in Center Moriches, New York on Christmas Eve and Little Christmas (January 6).
