More than 200 volunteers from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, and Marriott International, Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless (MCCH), organizers from KaBOOM!, community members, and residents joined forces on Wednesday, May 20, to build a new playground at Seneca Heights Apartments, one of MCCH’s permanent supportive housing programs that serves 17 formerly homeless families and 30 children . The design is based on children’s drawings created at a special design event in April.

1. KaBOOM! Playground Build
benefiting

2. The build started with children at
Montgomery County Coalition for the
Homeless’ Seneca Heights Apartments
permanent supportive housing program
putting crayons to paper to draw their
dream playground on Design Day.

3. Residents at Seneca Heights Apartments
were given 3 playground designs to choose
and chose this design:

4. Then, the community came
together to build their
dream playground!

9. Community members also prepared and
donated bagged meals and
snacks to help fuel volunteers’ energy.

16. Playground space before

17. Playground space after

18. Thank you to all volunteers for making
the dreams come true for
the children and families of our
Seneca Heights Apartments program!

19. Thank you to the following community donors
for supporting this playground build:
Bar-T Holding, Inc.
Brown Charitable Trust
Covenant Life Church
Diana Haskell
Edgar Taplin and Mary Irene McMahon
Faith United Methodist Church
Fitzgerald Auto Malls
Gary and Carol Berman Foundation
Inside Mortgage Finance Publications, Inc.
Insurance Associates, Inc.
John and Rauna Surr
Lincoln Financial Advisors
Linda Rosendorf
Linowes and Blocher LLP
Mimi Hassanein
North Chevy Chase Christian Church
Pioneer Building Services
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville

20. Thank you to the following partners for
making this playground possible: