Richard Foundation hosts Autumn Service event on Sunday, Oct. 21

The Martin Richard Foundation invites the community to participate in a three-hour family-friendly service event on Sun., Oct. 21, at IBEW Local 103 hall on Freeport Street. The Autumn Service Day will include hands-on service activities, food, and live music while volunteers learn the importance of community service. Representatives from service organizations including Sleeping Bags for the Homeless, Hope and Comfort, Boomerang Bags Boston and Food Bank 4 U, along with the Martin Richard Foundation Board and staff will participate.

The day will include three shifts of hands-on service activities, including packing book bags for elementary school children as part of the Foundation’s initiative to advance its values of sportsmanship, inclusion, kindness, and peace through reading; assembling hygiene kits; and making sleeping mats for the homeless with “plarn” made from plastic shopping bags. Volunteers are encouraged to bring high demand food items that will be donated to Food Bank 4 U, a food bank for students at Bridgewater State University.

Those items include granola bars, canned chicken, Spam, black beans, cereal, oatmeal, beef stew, canned meat products, meat-based soups, canned salmon, rice, microwaveable meals in a bowl, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and almond milk.

To volunteer, visit: martinrichardfoundation.org/event/autumn-service-day


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