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11/11/2025

You’re a single parent working full time…
$15 an hour, 40 hours a week, you bring home around $1,800 a month after taxes.

Your basic necessity bills:
-$1,100 rent
- $175 electric
- $280 car payment
- $120 insurance

That’s $1,675 gone before you even think about groceries, gas or your kid’s lunch money.

You’re getting by, barely. Then your daughter gets strep throat. You miss a week of work to take care of her and now your paycheck is short by $300.

The rent check bounces. The landlord adds a $75 late fee.
You make a partial payment, but by the time your next check comes, you’re already behind again.

Now you’re facing eviction.
You pack your things into your car and move in with a friend for a bit but she can only let you stay for a few weeks.

You try to get a new place, but every application wants a $50 fee and a clean rental record.
You don’t have either.

So you start living out of your car. Your child does homework in the backseat with a flashlight.
You shower at the gym, eat sandwiches and try to keep hope alive.

But one day, someone calls the cops about a “suspicious vehicle” in the parking lot.
Next thing you know, CPS is involved and everything you’ve fought to hold together falls apart.

And it all started with one missed paycheck.

We walk past people in these situations every single day.
They’re not lazy. They’re not broken.
They’re doing their best in a system designed for them to fail.

So before you judge, remember you’re one unexpected bill, one illness, one broken down car away from being in the exact same position.

99% of us are way closer to homelessness than we are to being rich.

Stay humble. Be kind. Be grateful. And be careful with thinking “that could never happen to me”. 💙

*copied from a friend

11/11/2025

11/08/2025

🌴💚 Community Bridges is proud to partner with Reggae On West Beach Reggae on West Beach for the Food Fight Food Drive 2025-2026 Campaign!

Join us in supporting local families by donating shelf-stable food items — things already in your pantry or an extra item you pick up on your next grocery trip. Every little bit helps! 🥫✨

📦 Drop off your donations at Community Bridges, Inc. and help us make a difference together.

Let’s show how strong our community can be when we come together! 🙌

11/04/2025

Morning

Check your area!
FYI...

FREE TURKEY RESOURCE
The event will take place on Saturday, November 15th, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

No registration is required. Turkeys will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please advise everyone to arrive early; as lines are expected to be long.

Turkey Giveaway Schedule

8:00 AM – Mattapan Teen Center 1341 Blue Hill Ave, Mattapan, MA 02126

9:00 AM – Gallivan Community Center 61 Woodruff Way, Mattapan, MA 02126

10:00 AM – Franklin Field 91 Ames Street, Dorchester, MA 02124

11:00 AM – Franklin Hill 1 Shandon Road, Dorchester, MA 02124

12:00 PM – The Mix 555 Talbot Ave, Dorchester, MA 02124

1:00 PM – Thumbprint Realty 472 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02124

2:00 PM – Deliverance Temple Worship Center 232 Columbia Road, Dorchester, MA 02121

3:00 PM – Grove Hall Intersection of Washington St & Blue Hill Ave, Dorchester, MA 02121

4:00 PM – Trotter School Playground 156 Humboldt Ave, Dorchester, MA 02121

5:00 PM – Hannon Playground 621 Dudley St, Boston, MA 02125
Please pass this on to others who may need it. Thanks 🙏🏾

Please share info:

11/04/2025

https://forms.gle/FouzAc3wRiqtMfnH9

We are starting up our food drive early. With the state of the country and the SNAP benefits changing our local food pantries will need assistance in their stock piles for our communities in need. We will pick up and deliver to local pantries PACE being our main drop site until they are at capacity then move to the others.

We are looking for local businesses who would like to host a donation box provided and maintained by ROWB.

In return we would keep track of # donated items and the winner of each category will recieve the food fight trophy of 2026.

We will keep this going for the remainder of this year up until our 10 yr event in August of 2026.

Donation boxes will be picked up monthly unless they get full faster, if they do just shoot us an email or text for sooner pick up.

In return as a thank you to all participants we will share some of your posts from your business pages, add our followers to invite pages for traction to your own pages, and post your public events that you may going throughout the time of the food fight food drive.

Email reggaeonwestbeach@gmail.com
Email rowbvendors@gmail.com
Text 774-634-1008

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