Governor-elect Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor-elect Kim Driscoll will continue their “Team Up Massachusetts” regional inaugural events in Taunton and South Yarmouth tomorrow.

 

These stops are intended to bring the inaugural festivities across Massachusetts, leading up to their swearing in on January 5th. Healey and Driscoll are hosting a series of service events to bring communities together and give back to those in need. 

Taunton

In Taunton, Healey and Driscoll will join Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South at their Taunton Clubhouse to assist with their essential services supplies drive.

 

The duo will help assemble nearly 500 school supplies kits and 150 personal hygiene care packages, and distribute 500 heads of lettuce from the Clubs’ in-house “Freight Farms” hydroponic farming initiative. These supplies will be distributed to nearly a dozen partner organizations – including Our Daily Bread, Hebron Food Pantry, Girls Inc. of Taunton, and the Old Colony YMCA’s Taunton Branch – that will help provide them to local public schools and families in need.

 

The personal care products are being generously supplied by Needham-based nonprofit Hope & Comfort. A group of volunteers from Bristol County Savings Bank will also participate in the supplies drive and the produce packaged will go to provide fresh, healthy vegetables to Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South’s Kids Café Healthy Meals Program which serves more than 100,000 hot, nutritious meals to Club youth annually.

Healey and Driscoll encourage members of the community to donate personal care items, school supplies, and/or nonperishable pantry staples to support Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South’s ongoing efforts to provide wrap-around essential services to youth and their families. Learn more about BGCMS’s mission and impact at www.bgcmetrosouth.org.