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[Event listing courtesy of the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable]
Each February, the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable collects items for Valentine’s Day and fills gift bags for adults and children temporarily living in local domestic violence shelters and transitional housing programs: REACH Beyond Domestic Violence, The Second Step, and Voices Against Violence. The Valentine Bags are decorated by the children from Sudbury Extended Day.
Members of our local communities are cordially invited to participate in this collection again this year. We welcome your donations, and we cordially invite you to join us to help assemble the bags on February 11, 2025, at 1:30 PM at the Sudbury Grange, 326 Concord Road, Sudbury, next to Sudbury Town Hall.
This is a great opportunity for civic organizations, workplaces, families, friends, and neighbors to contribute to the Roundtable collection and to help us make lives brighter for families affected by domestic violence. Small acts of kindness like the gift bags let families know they are supported in their decision to leave an abusive situation and these gestures brighten their day.
Some examples of needed items are gift cards for CVS, Target, Market Basket, Gas Cards, and Dunkin in denominations of $5 &$10. For adults, teens and tweens some items could include full size bath products, socks, cosmetics, nail polish, hair products, journals, gloves/mittens, boxed candy, wash cloths, underwear, scarves. and small pouches that fit inside backpacks and purses. Items for children could include playing cards, educational materials, small toys, small stuffed animals, underwear, socks and candy. No books, crayons, pencils, markers, or matchbox cars please. All donated items should be new. Please keep in mind that the gift bags will not hold larger items.
Donations may be left in the collection basket provided at Sudbury Wine and Spirits in the Rugged Bear Plaza Road, 410 Boston Post Road, Sudbury. The 2025 collection will start on January 27th and end on February 10th. Thank you for your consideration. For a complete list of suggested donations, please go to www.domesticviolenceroundtable.org. If you have questions, please contact the Roundtable at [email protected].
