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From left to right: Asa Fanelli, president and chief executive officer of Horizons for Homeless Children; Hannah Nersasian, Greater Boston playspace director; PAL of the Year Colleen Daly; Rob Stewart, Greater Boston playspace director; and Matt Epstein, chairman of the organization’s board of directors.
Horizons for Homeless Children has named a North End woman its “PAL of the Year” for Greater Boston in recognition of her volunteerism, the organization announced.
For more than a dozen years, Colleen Daly has volunteered as a Playspace Activity Leader, or a PAL, at Margaret’s House, a family shelter in Dorchester. Horizons announced her award recently at its annual awards dinner.
The organization said Daly is not only one of the longest-serving of its more than 1,000 volunteers but also someone who goes to extraordinary lengths to help the organization and her fellow volunteers.
Daly mentors other volunteers, fills in for them when they need to miss a shift, attends extra shifts to welcome new recruits, and organizes community meetings, the group said.
She has also been a speaker at the organization’s Women’s Breakfast, participated in panel discussions a volunteer trainings, helped out at many events for Margaret’s House families, and been an advocate for the group at the State House, it said.
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