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30th Annual Greater Philadelphia MLK Day Of Service Brings Out Hundreds Of Volunteers
"This is giving me great, great honor to be here. Doing this here … doing something for someone else," 64-year-old Mark Smith said.
January 21, 2025
Hundreds of volunteers gathered at Girard College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to participate in the Greater Philadelphia MLK Day of Service, honoring Dr. King's legacy through a variety of community service projects. It was the 30th year of the annual event.
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Among them was 12-year-old Aidan Gaddis, who spent his day tying knots on fleece blankets for cancer patients through the Voices of Black Women program with the American Cancer Society. Though he will likely never meet the recipients, he said he hoped his efforts would bring comfort to those in need.
"Because there's people that don't have what we have at home," Gaddis said.
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