LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taking Action to Help Others
Residents Isabella and Alexa Faber are helping teenagers less fortunate than others.
My sister, Alexa and I decided that it was important to do more for people less fortunate than us. That is why we are doing a book drive for "More than Words" (http://mtwyouth.org) located in Waltham. The purpose of this organization is to help provide teenagers who are in foster care, homeless or not attending school the opportunity to get control of their lives by working in this book store. The teenagers who work there have had their lives turned upside down by addiction, abuse, or neglect, who often end up in foster homes, homeless shelters, or the court system. We read about one 17-year-old boy whose father went to prison, his family lost their home to foreclosure. And he lived in homeless shelters in Florida and Massachusetts. After …
