The AIDS Action Committee has announced that 300 backpacks filled with daily necessities, such as winter hats and gloves, have been donated to the agency by Emmanuel Episcopal Church in West Roxbury. It is the third year in a row that Emmanuel Church has collected backpacks and donations for street-involved and homeless youth served by AIDS Action’s Cambridge-based Youth on Fire. Members of Emmanuel Episcopal Church packed the backpacks earlier this month and they were delivered to Youth on Fire on Dec. 18.
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