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Trick or Eat Canned Food Drive in Dorchester
Submitted by Mike Cooper on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 2:03pm.
The Trick or Eat Canned Food Drive took place on Halloween (October 31st). It is sponsored by DotWell, which is
a partnership between Codman Square Health Center and Dorchester House
Multi-Service Center. The DotWell Teen Center specifically ran
this event. The purpose of the drive is to combat poverty and hunger in
the Dorchester
community by donating cans to the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
and Codman Square Health Center pantries, which help to support food
pantries' high demand for food during the holiday season. 1-2 adults supervised groups of 5-6 high-school students who trick or treated for canned goods in the Ashmont Hill, Melville Park and Fields Corner areas from 6 PM - 10 PM. The youth volunteers are came from the Madison Park, Boston Latin, Boston Collegiate Charter, and West Roxbury Charter schools.
SCI Welcomes New AmeriCorps Members
Submitted by Mike Cooper on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 8:30am.
On Monday, September 14th, the SCI team welcomed nineteen new AmeriCorps Members for the first time. These men and women, many of which had just completed college, arrived anxious but ready for ten months of challenges.
We had a full week of orientation activities ahead of us. It was a week filled to the brim both with valuable skills we would need to accomplish their mission, and hokey icebreakers to calm their nerves and introduce them to colleagues.
We arrived at the Dotwell house in Dorchester with the desire to help people through getting them involved in their communities, but only a faint idea of how to go about the task. Jocelyn Abelha said that “Last week I learned the scope of the project that I am getting involved with by becoming an SCI AmeriCorps member. Since I will be serving in my own community I was not aware of how big this program is in terms of its reach for volunteers across the country.”
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New AmeriCorps Members Begin Serving
Submitted by Mike Cooper on Tue, 09/25/1990 - 3:12pm.Social Capital Inc. has recently been joined by nineteen new AmeriCorps Members. These new members have been placed throughout the Woburn, Dorchester, Lynn, Fall River, and Milford, communities, helping several different organizations expand their services to the community during this time of need.
AmeriCorps is the national service program through which some 75,000 individuals provide a year of service to local communities; the program will be growing substantially in the coming years through the Kennedy Serve America Act. AmeriCorps is managed in Massachusetts by the Massachusetts Service Alliance.
There are seven Americorps members currently serving in the Woburn Area.
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