Students Head Into the Streets to Help Community
Date: Oct. 18, 2000
By: Dawn Fuller
Phone: (513) 556-1823
Archive: General News
Cincinnati -- Hundreds of University of Cincinnati students
will spend their Saturday painting, performing maintenance work
and cleaning as they take part in the 10th annual "Into the
Streets" community service initiative. Students will meet at 8
a.m. Saturday, Oct. 21 at St. Monica-St. George Church, located
at 328 W. McMillan in Clifton Heights, behind Hughes High School.
Click here for registration information.
"Into the Streets" is a national effort to draw awareness to
the importance of community service. "Service learning allows
students to put classroom theory into practice," explains William
Harris, director, UC Community Service Programs.
"They may learn about homelessness in their sociology
class, but when they volunteer at the City Gospel Mission
downtown, they see the effects of homelessness on the faces of
the men and women standing in the food line.
"Students will find that because of the social issues and
social environment in which some people have to exist, it's
difficult for them to even conceive a regular paycheck, a nice
home or a higher education."
Harris adds that last year alone, the Community Service
Programs Office logged 37-thousand hours of community service
performed by 1,500 UC students. The agencies recruiting
volunteers this weekend are:
National Conference for Community and Justice
The partner of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
will kick off a Saturday fund-raiser and celebration of community
diversity called Walk as One. Approximately 75 UC students will
provide assistance along the route, which begins at 10 a.m. at
Yeatman's Cove, Sawyer Point. Walkers will follow a route through
downtown into northern Kentucky and will finish back at Yeatman's
Cove.
Brighton Center, Newport
Students will be painting classrooms at the child development
center from approximately 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Cincinnati Park Board/Burnet Woods
Students will pick up litter and mulch the trails at Burnet Woods
between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Tender Mercies, Over-the-Rhine
The downtown organization provides permanent housing for the
homeless. Around 20-30 UC students are expected to help paint the
residents' rooms.
City Gospel Mission, Over-the-Rhine
Students are expected to arrive at 10 a.m. One group will clean,
spackle and paint a dorm room as they get the room ready for
residents. A separate group of students will help serve lunch to
the homeless.
Over-the-Rhine Housing Network
Students will arrive at the office at around 9:30 a.m. and will
be doing a thorough fall cleaning at several low-rent housing
facilities throughout the community. Chores will include cleaning
the halls, washing windows, picking up around the grounds around
the buildings and possibly doing some landscaping.
People Working Cooperatively
This community organization recruits volunteers to help the poor,
elderly and disabled maintain their homes. Students will help
with general maintenance including weatherizing and repairing
homes around the community.
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