by Lilian | Jul 10, 2018 | Freedom By Design
From 2017 to 2018 our chapter partnered with the Bird Street Community Center in the Dorchester area, an after-school youth development program for grade school student. Bird Street’s goal is to instill in their students intellectual and leadership qualities that will...
by Lilian | Jun 3, 2017 | Freedom By Design
From 2015 to 2017 our chapter partnered with Egleston Square Main Streets, a local non-for-profit organization, to improve and revitalize the Egleston Square Peace Garden. Once a vacant lot situated across the street from the Community Youth Center, the park was...
by Lilian | Jun 3, 2017 | Freedom By Design
In 2012, our chapter designed and built an ADA ramp for the Congregation Eitz Chayim in Cambridge, MA. Upon hearing about the work Freedom by Design had done on their previous project, congregation member David Eisen offered his synagogue as a potential project. As...
by Lilian | Jun 3, 2017 | Freedom By Design
In 2010, a Dorchester family was in need of an accessible exit for their son, Samir, who is severely disabled and confined to a wheelchair. The living room on the first floor was transformed into the son’s bedroom for medical emergencies. The existing conditions of...