The joint bid focuses on enticing the whole community to use the facilities, with plans to get thousands of youngsters visiting education resources, while adults will be encouraged to take up health and well-being programmes.

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As founder of the Van Bokkelen Family Network, the program provides local community resources such as GED, health, and housing education for parent in the school.

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The community can learn how to come together and use their shared resources of skills, education, and experiences and redistribute them within their group to strengthen it.

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While hunger is the top concern for Darden Harvest, the Darden Foundation also targets education and preservation of natural resources, and local affiliates that drive community service ideas provide a diverse array of ways for Darden to get involved in the areas its restaurant serves.

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That team is serving Veterans in the area during their transition by identifying their education, employment and healthcare needs and then connecting them to the right community, state and Federal resources.

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