PHOTOS: Neighbors helping neighbors: Metcalfe Park Community Bridges provides resources to 2,000 residents | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
April 27, 2020
After a large-scale effort to survey the needs of its community, Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, a neighborhood-based grassroots organization, mobilized to deliver aid Friday to more than 2,000 residents.
Staff and volunteers created and delivered packages that included health resources, masks, gloves, voting and census info, food, hygiene products, tissue, educational curriculum and family activities.
The group plans to distribute packages every two weeks, as long as the quarantine continues.
This initiative is made possible through individual donors and donations from Wisconsin Voices, United Way, Northwestern Mutual, the McGinnity Family Foundation, Ayuda Mutua MKE, Arts @ Large, Medical College of Wisconsin, ImagineMKE, Rebel Face Mask, Jewish Community Pantry, Milwaukee Rep and Safe & Sound.
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