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Issue #29 | Fall 2023

ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY
MAKING LIVES BETTER

RTR Gives Back

People with disabilities are just like everyone else. They have strengths,
weaknesses, and a desire to be valued by others. They also want to be
seen as being capable of both receiving and giving.

Since our founding in 1988, Road to Responsibility, Inc. (RTR) has
known this truth and we have always tried to focus more on strengths
while simultaneously helping people address their weaknesses.
Unfortunately, many in society do not share that perspective, and too
often people with disabilities are treated as being invisible or viewed
as objects deserving of charity. Rarely are they seen as contributors to
society.

Thankfully, life provides many opportunities to engage in activities
that make people pause and reconsider previous assumptions. One
such recent event involved our nascent collaboration with The
Outreach Program-End Hunger NE in Pembroke, a group dedicated
to addressing food insecurity. Utilizing funds from a grant received
from the United Way of Greater Plymouth County, and our own funds
to pay for the food supplies, Members from RTR’s local day programs,
along with Employees and friends, packed 35,000 meals to benefit local
Veterans Groups and food banks! The smiles that day were omnipresent
and contagious as Members delighted in knowing they were helping
people in their communities who were hungry. Since then, they have
gone back to volunteer multiple times and RTR has been added to the
Outreach Program’s “Wall of Fame.”

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