An important value to Wake Robin residents and staff is giving back. All year round, Wake Robin residents partner closely with local food shelves to donate clothing, food, and personal items. Donation baskets are spread throughout the Wake Robin Community Center and distributed monthly. These baskets are often labeled with a theme for the month, which is what the food shelf is most in need of during that time.
Wake Robin residents also donate clothing and household items through Shalom Shuk, a thrift shop that serves the local community, helps new immigrants, and those in need.
For this holiday season, residents partnered with a local food shelf to create dolls to gift to families. These dolls were created by residents which include everything from their yarn hair to their colorful clothing. Hopefully, their new families will love them just as much as the residents enjoyed making them.
Wake Robin also organized a Support-a-Family initiative, where staff members could pick an ornament off a tree listing specific gift requests. This tree included gift-giving opportunities for a Shelburne family, the Shelburne New American community and Wake Robin employees.
Volunteering, donation collection, and advocacy, not just for those who live and work at Wake Robin, but for those in the greater community, have been valued from Wake Robin’s beginnings and will continue for years to come.
