Last week, the community at Phoenix Charter Academy, an alternative high school in Chelsea, collected food and clothing for local families who may be experiencing increased stress due to economic hardship around the holidays.
For the third year in a row, students and staff collected and purchased foodstuffs, winter clothing, baby supplies, and more to organize into boxes for Phoenix families in need of support. All of the produce for these boxes was donated by P. Tavilla Co. of Chelsea. Phoenix Chelsea also has a “Go-Fund Me” page where they raised funds to buy those same families additional food stuffs and winter clothing.
The food and clothing will be given to more than 100 families and students who rely on meals from the school, and these donations help greatly with getting them through the holiday break when they otherwise might not be able to make ends meet. Winter clothing has become an increasingly important need for the community, too, since Phoenix Chelsea serves a growing community of students and families who are recent immigrants, many of whom have never experienced a New England winter before.