We see thousands of elementary, middle, high school and college student volunteers every year. (Except of course for the Covid Year). It is hard for us to pick our favorites. There have been some salient third graders, some amazing seventh graders, some outstanding...
NEW BABY SAFETY EQUIPMENT! Children’s toothbrushes and toothpastes.Teen Hygiene Products (New and unopened).Girls and Boys, Teens and Adult underwear, all genders.Sweat Pants, All Sizes, Both GendersMittens, gloves and scarfs.Infant mittens (no thumbs)....
We are collecting school supplies: Crayons, 2 pocket folders, glue sticks, rulers, calculators, three-hole filler paper, three and five subject notebooks, highlighters, three-ring binders and colored pencils.
"Gently-used" warm, winter clothes and NEW School supplies are needed. With over 50,000 SouthCoast children living in poverty, and with most of them living in single head of households with one or two siblings - getting ready for school is a huge stress point for...
Our Senior, Student Intern is Diego Marroquin. Diego started with us as a Freshman, Pre-Med Student at UMass Dartmouth and will be a Senior in September. Diego has already been accepted at UMass Medical School in Worcester and will be leaving us in December. Diego's...
So ... here we were in mid-November trying to get warm winter clothes packages out the door for local children with inventory getting dangerously low. We put out a call to action and the results were overwhelming and allowed us to help a ton of local kids get the...
The back story for context is: Our youngest student intern, is Dylan Smith. Dylan is eleven-years-old, is currently being home schooled with Grandmother Patty and when there is no pandemic, he attends fifth grade in Freetown. Dylan's regular volunteer job is managing...
On Friday we were the recipients of a ton of brand new toys and new, beautiful children's clothing. Later on that day we received an email from Sharon, Finn's Mother. "My name is Sharon Barbosa and I am a proud mother of a two year old boy named Finn. Finn was just...
Kindergarten teacher extraordinaire Jo-Ann Silva just dropped off a ton of new pajamas with a note. The Acushnet Public Schools Kindergarten class was excited and generous with our December community service event! Although our annual Pajama Drive looked very...