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    9 September 2011 | POSTED BY David Porter

    Mormon Helping Hands Paint, Garden and Clean in the UK

    Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donned their familiar Mormon Helping Hands yellow vests to do some volunteering throughout the United Kingdom recently.

    The Mormon Helping Hands program brings together members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their neighbors to provide community service
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    More than 300 Latter-day Saints including friends and neighbors worked together to clean areas hit by the recent London riots as well as gardening, painting, carpentry and general cleanup in other locations.

    The Church’s UK website chronicled the Monday, 5 September 2011 efforts.

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