Kids Cafe—Photo Story

Emma Alvarez, 9, sits at a Crayola-blue table and sips Italian Wedding soup with her two friends, Libny Rodriguez, 10, and Cheri Tangherlini, 9, at the Jordan Boys and Girls Club Kids Café in Chelsea, Mass.

Emma, Cheri and Libny are three of about 250 kids who will eat a hot, healthy meal here tonight, a meal they probably wouldn’t get at home.

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Happy wheels, happy world: Bikes Not Bombs! Photos via Caroline Treadway.

Bayla Shepley pulled inner tubes off used bike rims on a recent rainy Saturday in Jamaica Plain, Boston. A high school student at the Cambridge school of Weston, Shepley was one of 15 Bikes Not Bombs volunteers who loaded nearly 450 landfill-bound bicycles and parts into a gray shipping container destined for Tanzania.

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