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Headline text against a brick wall background reads 'Bringing people in Greater Boston together for community service.' Six PMD volunteers in a candid photo are working on a community service project together, passing materials to each other down an assembly line that they formed. They are working hard, wearing work gloves, and smiling with each other. They are standing on a wooden platform with the PMD platform that reads: do something good, make new friends, learn something new.

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Harvest and transplant bamboo for red pandas, sheep, donkeys & goats in the Children's Zoo


Sunday 10/06/2024, 9:30am-1:30pm

Rain or shine.

Location: Franklin Park Zoo, Boston

Deadline: Register by 9/29

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Two PMD volunteers pose with the bamboo clump that they painstakingly dug out of the grove in the background in order to transplant it into the Red Pandas exhibit in the Children's Zoo at the Franklin Park Zoo in Dorchester in 2023.

Improve trails and increase biodiversity in Iroquois Woods urban wild on Boston's Mission Hill


Saturday 10/19/2024, 9:30am-12:30pm

Rain Date: 10/19
Sign up for both or either primary (9:30am-12:30pm) and/or rain postponement (1:30-4:30pm) shifts

Location: Iroquois Woods, Boston's Mission Hill Near Fenwood Rd. stop of "E" Green Line or #39

Deadline: Register by 10/12

~5 volunteers are still needed.

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A PMD volunteer before cutting and clearing tangled weeds at edge of Iroquois Woods urban wild on Boston's Mission Hill on 9/30/2023

Carefully collate Braille-embossed plastic pages between printed pages of MARS! Earthlings Welcome


Saturday 10/26/2024, 9:30-12noon or 1:00-3:30pm

Rain or shine.

Location: National Braille Press
Boston behind Symphony Hall
Spacious, well-ventilated, and sanitized basement work space

Limited, free parking available by request when registering

Deadline: Register by 10/19

~21 volunteers are still needed.

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4 masked PMD volunteers collate printed and Braille-embossed plastic pages of the STEM children's book <i>PLUTO! Not a planet? Not a Problem!</i> for the National Braille Press in 2023

Officiate for the MIT Science Bowl, a high school invitational


Saturday 11/16/2024, 8am-1pm or 8am-5pm

Location: MIT, Cambridge

Deadline: Register by 10/26

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Four volunteers, including Lilly Heilshorn from PMD, officiate for the 2023 MIT Science Bowl high school invitational

How We’ve Made a Difference

Three PMD volunteers in a cafeteria-style kitchen, preparing food on meal trays to serve to people in need. They are smiling and concentrating on the task. They are wearing PMD aprons, PMD name tags, and wearing disposable gloves for food service.
Meals for People in Need
Four PMD volunteers wearing PMD badges are sorting and packaging seed packets. They are fulfilling seed packet requests for Boston community gardens in order to help local gardeners. They are wearing PMD and gloves to handle items to follow covid-19 precautions.
Helping Community Gardens
Three PMD volunteers are carefully assembling Braille-embossed stickers onto children’s books and magnets, in order to help adults and children of all abilities read together. The volunteers are working together at a long table, wearing PMD volunteer badges, and appear focused on their work.
Assembling Print-Braille Children’s Books
A line of 8 PMD Volunteers are working hard to prune shrubbery that is lining the pond at Spy Pond Park, in order to help reveal the view of the pond and improve the urban green space. They are holding long gardening pruning devices, with their backs facing the camera.
Improving Urban Greenspaces
Five PMD volunteers are facing your direction, wearing face masks, PMD volunteer badges. They jointly carry a full box of packed ziploc bags that they finished assembling for the street outreach program with Pine Street Inn. Each individual bag includes items such as hand sanitizer, lip balm, lotion, facial tissue packs, and other toiletries.
Packing Street Outreach Supplies
6 PMD volunteers are seated at a table in the front of a classroom, with a blank projector screen behind them, and laptops, projectors, wires, papers, and a digital clock in front of them on the table. They are volunteering at a school science bowl event where they help run the rounds as moderators, science judges, rule judges, scorekeepers, time keepers.
School Science Bowls
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4 PMD volunteers are hard at work together at a table while packing hand sanitizer, lip balm, lotion, facial tissue packs, and other toiletries. They are assembling the supplies into zip lock bags in order to help the street outreach program at Pine Street Inn. They are wearing PMD volunteer badges, face masks, and using gloves to handle the materials.
15 PMD volunteers are seen standing on the front steps at the National Braille Press in Boston Massachusetts. A large plaque at the front of the building displays the words “National Braille Press.” The PMD Volunteers are holding their completed projects for the day of embossing Braille stickers onto pages of children’s books and magnets, in order to help adults and children of all abilities read together.

“Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens,
can change the world. Indeed, it’s
the only thing that ever has.”

   Margaret Mead

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