Dawg Day of Service coated 30 websites throughout the Athens space
On Sept. 21, greater than 500 College of Georgia college students participated in Dawg Day of Service, UGA’s largest annual day of student-led group service. Celebrating its eleventh yr, the occasion set data for the variety of collaborating college students and repair websites, highlighting college students’ rising dedication to group involvement.
Led by Director of Member Improvement Emma Benedict, college students pack important hygiene objects for group members at Metropolis of Refuge.
Organized by Serve UGA – student-led teams inside UGA’s Division of Engagement, Management, and Service – college students unfold throughout 30 various places all through Athens-Clarke County and the encompassing space. Their efforts included cleansing areas for people experiencing homelessness, writing playing cards for reminiscence care sufferers, and planting gardens.
Taking part scholar organizations included the Black Affairs Council, Alpha Sigma Phi, ASL Dawgs, Filipino Scholar Affiliation, Phi Beta Sigma, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., College Union, UGA Homecoming, UGA NAACP, the Graduate Scholar Affiliation, and the Black Felicity Scholar Affiliation.
Group companions with longstanding relationships with UGA college students had been additionally a part of the occasion. Sabrina Webb, a participant expertise coordinator for Dawg Day of Service and a service ambassador for UGArden, shared her coronary heart for service.
Two volunteers maintain gourds at Athens Group Council on Ageing group backyard, led by Service Ambassador Anna Thomas. College students helped put together the backyard for fall manufacturing and overwintering, which helps ACCA’s senior starvation initiatives like Turkeypalooza and Squash Senior Starvation.
“I’d advocate serving to different college students as a result of it provides one the power to satisfy like-minded individuals and know that you’re making a distinction in what you probably did in the course of the occasion,” Webb mentioned. “I consider via our core worth of sustainable service we’re capable of depart an enduring impression and never a fast, fleeting motion.”
Webb grew up on an animal rescue farm and emphasised the importance of animal rescue in her life. She expressed that her experiences have introduced her pleasure whereas volunteering and highlighted that the information of creating a optimistic influence on animals, the setting, or individuals’s lives motivates her to proceed her volunteer work.
Along with off-campus actions, college students might contribute to on-campus initiatives, together with the UGA Interval Challenge, Bulldog Fundamentals, the Incapacity Useful resource Heart and the Skilled Clothes Closet. These tasks had been conveniently hosted within the Tate Scholar Heart Grand Corridor, and digital volunteer alternatives comparable to creating coloring sheets for kids supported by the Athens Space Diaper Financial institution had been additionally accessible.
The next 30 websites benefited from scholar volunteers’ efforts:
- Athens Space Diaper Financial institution
- Athens Space Homeless Shelter
- Athens Space Humane Society
- Athens Group Council on Ageing
- Athens Land Belief
- Atlanta Mission Thrift Retailer
- Greater Imaginative and prescient of Athens Group Shelter
- Brightpaths
- Broad River Watershed Affiliation (in collaboration with Ramsey Out of doors Recreation & Rivers Alive)
- Brooklyn Cemetery
- Burks Elementary Faculty backyard
- CHaRM
- Cleveland Street Elementary Faculty backyard
- Divas Who Win
- Additional Particular Individuals
- Household Promise of Athens
- Georgia Museum of Artwork
- Maintain Athens-Clarke County Stunning Web site 1
- Maintain Athens-Clarke County Stunning Web site 2
- Maintain Oconee County Stunning
- Lyndon Home Arts Heart
- Nuci’s House
- Oconee County Library
- Oconee Forest Park
- Skilled Clothes Closet
- Challenge Protected
- Spirit Ridge Rescue
- Candy Olive Farm
- The Backpack Challenge
- Trial Gardens
- Whit Davis Faculty backyard
For extra details about Dawg Day of Service and future volunteer alternatives, please contact [email protected].
