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Boca Helping Hands Partners With Six Public Schools

To Provide Weekend Food To Kids

Boca Helping Hands backpacks full of food at the end of each week and returning
(BHH) has partnered empty backpacks the following week to fill again, each child
with six public schools now brings home a “backpack in a box” each Friday filled
to provide food-insecure with six meals, three snacks, two juice boxes, and two shelf-
elementary students with stable milks. The currently participating schools are located
weekend meals for the in Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Boynton Beach.
remainder of the school “Without this help, these children might not have enough
year. The BHH Backpacks to eat over the weekend. We’re pleased to be able to provide
Program will ensure that these meals,” said Greg Hazle, executive director of Boca
348 children stay fed when Helping Hands.
they head home on Fridays, When schools closed in the spring due to the COVID-19
with additional schools Members of the Junior League of Boca Raton have outbreak, Boca Helping Hands provided its remaining
potentially joining later in volunteered on Thursday nights for years to help pack meals backpack food for the 2019/20 school year to the Achievement
the year. (Front to back) Heather for the elementary students in the BHH Backpacks Program. Centers for Children and Families and Boys and Girls Club
During the pandemic, Roman, Kerri Crowell and (Left to right) Jacqueline Martin, Heather Roman, Meghan
instead of receiving Renata Wozniak Shea, Renata Wozniak, Kerri Crowell and Tina Kelly Boca Helping Hands on page 6
Two South Palm Beach County Families Cherish New

‘Homes For The Holidays’ From Habitat For Humanity

Continuing to build safe, affordable single-family Community Redevelopment
homes for low-income, hardworking families during the Agency (CRA), City of
COVID months, albeit at a slower pace due to COVID-19 Boynton Beach, partnered in
restrictions, Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach the build.
County has fulfilled two dreams of homeownership in The Ceasar and Moss
time to usher in the holiday season. Habitat homes are located
Even the need to stay social distanced to be “together, within the Heart of Boynton
yet apart” did not damper the exhilaration as the homes District and the Poinciana
were blessed and keys passed to the new Habitat Gardens neighborhood as
homebuyers, Greta Ceasar and Reginald Moss, and their part of the city and CRA’s
families. On hand to celebrate were representatives from Model Block project that, when
Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County and
its home sponsors, Sklar Furnishings and Publix Super Homes For The Holidays Days before Thanksgiving, Habitat Home Sponsor Publix Super Markets Charities
Markets Charities who, along with the Boynton Beach on page 4 representatives were onsite to dedicate and celebrate the passing of the keys to the Moss Family.
Little Smiles Expands Holiday Toy Drive

To Help More Local Children Than Ever Before

For The First Time Little Smiles first time this year, to meet the rising demand, Little Smiles global health crisis and kids quarantined for months, we
Toy Drive Will Benefit Local plans to use donations from its annual toy drive to help local saw a huge increase in the number of families desperately
children all year long!
Children In Need Year-Round “Our role in the community is more important now than Little Smiles on page 2
ever before,” said Nicole
Little Smiles plans to bring big smiles to more children Mercado, executive director
than ever before this holiday season and beyond. For the of Little Smiles. “With the