Action for Boston Community Development is struggling to fill a greater amount of calls for help from families in Boston and other communities in the Mystic Valley area.
Social service agencies are seeing greater requests for help with the holidays as lower-income families struggling to meet basic household needs amid the pandemic have nothing to spare for gifts.
And at least one organization is putting a call out to supporters as requests for help pour in, but the donations to their annual toy drive are slow.
Action for Boston Community Development has been holding a holiday toy drive for its clients and Greater Boston’s lower-income families for 50 years.
This year, they are struggling to fill a greater amount of calls for help from disadvantaged families in Boston and other communities in the Mystic Valley area, as requests pour in at an unprecedented rate.
