Long & Foster donates to Boys & Girls Club

More than 100 boys and girls will take a summer field trip thanks to Long & Foster after the real estate company dropped off a $1,270 donation to the Oak Orchard-Riverdale Boys & Girls Club March 13.

The Boys & Girls Club corporate office is matching the donation dollar-for-dollar, doubling the amount to $2,540.

April Armstrong, a sales associate with Long & Foster, said their agents and the community made it happen.

“People around here are really excited we have a Boys & Girls Club close by. So when they got an opportunity to help out, they jumped at it,” Armstrong said. “The match will basically allow them to cover the entire trip.”

The children will be going to the Movies at Midway in July, all expenses paid.

“We rent out an entire theater,” said Erica Kennedy, Boys & Girls Club site director. “[The donation] will also pay for transportation, which is so expensive right now, and snacks for the kids.” 

Kennedy said the organization never charges extra for field trips.

She said the Oak Orchard-Riverdale Boys & Girls Club has about 80 kids per day attend during the school year, jumping to more than 100 in the summer.

Kennedy said the organization is always looking for volunteers.

For more information, go to BGClubs.org.

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