Middleboro Elks lend helping hand to veteran needing housing

MIDDLEBORO -- Middleboro Elks Esteemed Leading Knight Barbara Doucette and Past Exalted Ruler Honorary Life Member, Esteemed Loyal Knight and Veterans Co-chair Laura O’Connor recently assisted Air Force veteran Jamaal Clark through the Welcome Home Kit program.

Volunteers of America and the Veterans Administration helped him locate and secure a new apartment but he needed many items such as bedding, towels and cleaning supplies.

Through the National Elks Welcome Home Kit program, the lodge gets reimbursed up to $400 if no bed is needed or $600 if a bed is purchased for a veteran.

Money raised through fundraisers is used to cover additional costs.

He is the eighth veteran the Middleboro Elks have assisted through this program.