by Lend A Hand Society Communications Team | Mar 14, 2022 | News
One of LAH’s main priorities is to help combat homelessness in the Greater Boston Area. There has been a significant increase in youth homelessness over the past four years. The pandemic aggravated the already prevalent problem because many people lost their jobs and...
by Lend A Hand Society Communications Team | Mar 7, 2022 | News
Lend A Hand is here to help seniors who are in need. As we emerge from the Coronavirus Pandemic, many elderly Bostonians are still struggling to pay for basic necessities such as rent and medication. According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, many seniors on...
by Lend A Hand Society Communications Team | Feb 24, 2022 | News
We are excited to announce that LAH has been awarded a Residential Energy Assistance Grant by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. This award will help provide relief to residents struggling to pay their heating bills during this challenging time. We are...
by Lend A Hand Society Communications Team | Feb 7, 2022 | News
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Lend A Hand Society was able to help even more of our neighbors in 2021 than in past years. As the greater Boston community continued to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, donors enabled us to make more and larger grants...
by Malaika Moyer | Mar 15, 2021 | News
Katie M. Hart was a pioneer of culture and literacy; a black woman who broke barriers as the first librarian of Hertford County, North Carolina, during the Jim Crow era. This is a bit of her story: In 1931, Katie, then a teacher supervisor, started a small library...
