CHARLOTTESVILLE (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — In an effort to fight food insecurity in their communities, teens from all six Boy & Girls Clubs in Central Virginia have launched food drives and bake sales around the region as part of an organization-wide service project called “BGCCVA Teens Give Back.”
Chief Operating Officer Michael Gulley told Cville Right Now the project was a part of an expansion and revamp of the Club’s annual “Youth of the Year” program, a year-long youth developmental that runs across all of the organizations chapters nationwide. Part of that program revolves around community service, Gulley said, so the teens in each club in Central Virginia got to select what community service project they wanted to as a part of the program.
Gulley said the teens decided to center their project around food insecurity, a cause he said they selected without any adult input…