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Fill a Heart 4 Kids works to help homeless and foster children build a brighter future.

Fill a Heart 4 Kids founder, Annie McAveeney says they work with teachers, social workers, and children’s advocacy centers to help homeless and foster children get the support and supplies they need to increase their school attendance, knowledge, and dignity.

“Every year we host MLK Day of Service to inspire awareness and compassion and to empower those children with the greatest need,” McAveeney said.

This year’s Fill a Heart 4 Kids Martin Luther King experience took place from 10 a.m.

to 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20 at The Gloria Dei Center, located in the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, on Westleigh Road in Lake Forest.

This youth-centered event encouraged kids to help kids, and McAveeney says offers teachable moments to allow families to instill compassion in their children, which in turn, helps to reduce peer bullying at school.

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