ASB Boston 2015 ended with dinner and a reflection at Fr. John’s...
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This morning, on the last day of service, students visited OLPH Mission Grammar School armed with healthy-eating activities for the kindergartners and first graders. These kids sure knew their vegetables! They were also able to try a variety of fruit – including mango, kiwi and strawberries. After leaving Mission Grammar, it was time for...
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ASB students spent the morning serving at the Franciscan Food Center in St. Anthony Shine. Part of their task? Organizing more than 12,000 diapers! #ecasbbos15 @EmmanuelCollege serving with @ShrineBoston – thank you for hosting us! pic.twitter.com/BY0cQgnd08 — DeirdreBradleyTurner (@BradleydDeirdre) March 12, 2015 After the Franciscan Food Shelter,...
Read MoreASB Boston, Day Three
Emmanuel’s Notre Dame Campus is also the hub of the College’s new Urban Food Project, which will provide nutritional education and information, as well as urban gardening strategies, for low-income families in the neighborhood. In the spring, Emmanuel students will plant and maintain an urban garden at the campus, develop a food distribution...
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The students spent the morning at Rosie’s Place, the first women’s shelter in the United States. Thank you @RosiesPlace for hosting #ecasbbos15 @EmmanuelCollege pic.twitter.com/0IiLQnzKJ7 — DeirdreBradleyTurner (@BradleydDeirdre) March 10, 2015 In the afternoon, the group traveled to The Food Project, an organization with a mission is to...
Read MoreASB Boston, Day One
This morning, the group of students split to serve at two service sites. One, Pine Street Inn, an organization founded in 1969 that provides not only emergency and transitional shelter, but permanent supportive housing, meals, outreach, job training and placement, mental health support and substance abuse treatment, and various social enterprises that get...
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