This Week's Mission Moment
At the South Shore YMCA, we believe our community is stronger when everyone feels welcome and we can all work together for the common good. Last week, we were proud to join Welcoming America, other YMCAs, and organizations nationwide to celebrate Welcoming Week.
Celebrated each September, Welcoming Week elevates the growing movement of communities that fully embrace new Americans and their contributions to the country's social fabric. We celebrate immigrants’ contributions to communities and bring together all residents in a spirit of unity. Both our Emilson YMCA branch in Hanover and Hale Family YMCA branch in Quincy held events to celebrate the diversity of our Y community, including a map activity where participants could mark their country of origin, showing a powerful representation of the diversity within our Y family.
It was exciting to see our staff, members, and guests celebrating diversity. Welcoming everyone from all aspects of the community is what truly makes the YMCA such a strong part of the community fabric.
Welcoming Week is an opportunity for neighbors—both immigrants and U.S.-born residents—to get to know one another and celebrate what unites people as a community. This week we celebrated the shared values that unite us as neighbors, parents, and colleagues, and to make our towns more welcoming to newcomers and to everyone who calls our community home.
