Make a Difference Day 2009!
| By Kristen - Oct 30, 2009 9:23:31 AM ET |
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Categories: Education, Income, Basic Needs, Volunteerism, How I Live United
Categories: Education, Income, Basic Needs, Volunteerism, How I Live United
Make a Difference Day was this past Saturday, October 24th, and it was awesome! I had so much fun being able to interact with the volunteers from HFCC and UMD and to see how excited they were to volunteer. I also got to check out both Greening of Detroit project sites to see how things were going, and I couldn’t believe how many people were there! I found out afterwards that 127 trees were planted on Saturday!! Great work, you guys! I know it was kind of cold out, but no one cared…everyone just wanted to make a difference!
Another shout out I need to give is to the agencies that participated for Make a Difference Day – they were PHENOMENAL! Thanks to: Accounting Aid Society, Baldwin Center, Beyond Basics, Grace Centers of Hope, Greening of Detroit, Lighthouse Path, Looking for My Sister, Oakland Livingston Human Service Association (OLSHA), Salvation Army Echo Grove Camp and Stanford House!!
Lastly, the volunteers got SO much work done at 10 different project sites. The coolest thing though is the impact of the volunteer hours that we all gave. There were 242 volunteers, and through those volunteers, 726 hours of service were generated…which gave over $14,000 back to our local communities! And what you maybe didn’t know was that it wasn’t just HFCC and UMD that had volunteers participate…it was also Schoolcraft College, Oakland University and Oakland Community College! As a fellow college student from UMD, I really want to thank all of you that participated this year! You each made a HUGE impact in our communities and I couldn’t be more proud to be a student volunteer…you guys ROCK and I hope to see you all out on MLK Day in January!
Another shout out I need to give is to the agencies that participated for Make a Difference Day – they were PHENOMENAL! Thanks to: Accounting Aid Society, Baldwin Center, Beyond Basics, Grace Centers of Hope, Greening of Detroit, Lighthouse Path, Looking for My Sister, Oakland Livingston Human Service Association (OLSHA), Salvation Army Echo Grove Camp and Stanford House!!
Lastly, the volunteers got SO much work done at 10 different project sites. The coolest thing though is the impact of the volunteer hours that we all gave. There were 242 volunteers, and through those volunteers, 726 hours of service were generated…which gave over $14,000 back to our local communities! And what you maybe didn’t know was that it wasn’t just HFCC and UMD that had volunteers participate…it was also Schoolcraft College, Oakland University and Oakland Community College! As a fellow college student from UMD, I really want to thank all of you that participated this year! You each made a HUGE impact in our communities and I couldn’t be more proud to be a student volunteer…you guys ROCK and I hope to see you all out on MLK Day in January!
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