"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...
Daughter Joyce, brought us a gift from her Mother, Celia LeClair. What a gift it was! Twenty-three mitten and scarf sets, five scarves, one hat and mitten set and one scarf and mitten set. Thirty local children will be recipients of not only wonderful, high quality,...
Resident Bee Keeper Bill O'Keefe, reported today that our honey bees are thriving, bringing back tons of pollen and making pounds of Acushnet honey. Bill has decided to add a third hive in the next few weeks!