Sue Bloom often thinks back to a young woman she met a decade ago while kicking off a fundraising event for the Boys & Girls Club in Salem. The woman told Bloom she lived in a friend’s basement as a teenager after losing her job, struggling with what to do next while caring for her young son. Enrolling her son in the Boys & Girls Club on Northeast Summer Street changed her life. “I knew that every day he was going to safely arrive, he’d get fed …
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