Holly Godfrey is the Director of two early childcare education programs in the Upper Valley: Creative Spirit Children’s Center in West Fairlee, and Maple Leaf Children’s Center in Thetford. This year, with the help of Willing Hands, and funding from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Holly and the teachers at these programs were able to
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Thanks to a grant awarded to Willing Hands from the VT Agency of Agriculture that provides CSA shares to Early Childhood Education programs, a bunch of the kids at Little Feet Children’s Center in East Thetford have been eagerly trying and enjoying fresh fruits and veggies from their local farm: Cedar Circle Farm and Education
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A Prescription for Good Health in Rural Vermont In the summer of 2019, Little Rivers Health Care faced a dilemma. Many of their chronically ill patients were struggling to locate healthy foods close to their rural communities. Maureen Boardman, a family nurse practitioner and doctor of nursing practice at LRHC, reached out to Willing Hands
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Willing Hands has partnerships with many kinds of organizations, not just food pantries and food shelves. The Center for Safer Communities in Claremont is one example. Safer Communities offers support and crisis services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking. How does fresh food play a role in their mission? Two words: dignity
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For more than a decade, Willing Hands has been delivering fresh produce from local farms to West Fairlee on Tuesday mornings. And for most of that time, Pamela Mainville has been leading the effort to connect local families in need with the available resources of the Upper Valley. A retired chef from the Mountain School
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Bob started volunteering with the Thetford Food Shelf in 2018. “It’s something I can do to help my community,” he says. “It doesn’t take any special skills, really, just the commitment to showing up.” The town hall-based service began in 1984 as the emergency food shelf. In 2004, it had outgrown the two shelves upstairs
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