Truist teammates from the DMV area recently volunteered at Frontline Community Services, Beltsville as part of their Lighthouse Project initiative, a teammate-driven volunteer effort focused on bringing positive change to local communities.
The project focused on uplifting facilities to benefit persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Truist also donated equipment to furnish the Recreation Center at Frontline. Over four days of collective volunteer service, Truist teammates planted and tended the spacious garden surrounding
Frontline’s headquarters located at Ammendale Business Park in Beltsville. Volunteers also fitted ceiling tiles, primed, and painted the Recreation Center, gym, and Music Room.
Frontline Community Services’ new headquarters includes ample space for its aptly named Freedom Club, which launched four years ago. The Freedom Club offers dance, yoga classes, arts and craft activities, cooking lessons, physical fitness training, library memberships and music therapy.
“Organizations like Frontline play a critical role in ensuring that even the most marginalized in our community feel safe and free enough to explore their creativity and to express themselves, said Robert Johnson, commercial banker and Lighthouse Project team leader at Truist. “We’re proud to partner with Frontline through our Lighthouse Project initiative. It’s projects like these that help us deliver on our purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities.”
President of Frontline Community Services, Mr. Dittu Abraham had this to say, “We are deeply grateful for Truist’s time and investment into our Recreation Center. Truist’s generosity will revolutionize the experiences of our persons served.
This space will not only be a blessing to our current persons served who will soon have a dedicated space in which to acquire new skills and showcase their talents, but in time, we hope to extend these facilities more widely to other persons with disabilities in our local communities. This is yet another step taken in line with Frontline’s commitment to serving the needs our community’s most vulnerable people by bringing real meaning to their lives,” he concluded.
