With a gleam in their eye and a skip in their step, dozens of youth from five different churches from Dartmouth to Brookside gathered to stuff bags fulls of basic necessities for people struggling to get by over the holiday season.
“I really hope they just get a sense of joy knowing that someone really does care,” said C.J. Rollin, a 12-year-old girl from Dartmouth.
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Rollin says she looks forward to volunteering her time over the holidays every year because she knows what its like to fall on tough times.
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“It really hurts because I know my mom at one point was a single mother of two and it can be hard. So I don’t even want to know what it’s like to be homeless and not have basic things,” she said.
The churches donated heaps of usable items from toothpaste to socks and sorted through the goodies to create care packages.
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All this while keeping in mind how important it is to give back to communities in need.
“It makes me sad because I know how fortunate I am for having a home but I know that others aren’t fortunate in the same way and that’s sad, especially around Christmas time,” said Julia Mitchell, a 12-year-old girl from Brookside, N.S.
The care packages will be distributed among people living in shelters and surviving on food banks.
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