Youth Interns Participate In Community Clean Up

 

Youth Action interns met at Ms. Verdia Daniels’ house on Saturday, August 16, 2008 to start helping out the community for their first Community Clean-Up. The clean up was a success. Six volunteers showed up and helped with picking up trash and planting flowers and trees.

The first house that the Youth Action team worked on was the yard of Ms. Verdia Daniels. Here they picked up trash and planted flowers.  They also fixed the fences around her house. After two long hours of hard work, the Youth Action team successfully beautified the home of Ms. Verdia. Palm trees and flowers like petunias, lavenders, and pansies were also planted in the nearby homes in her community. She was very thankful that we helped her and her community. Due to our hard work one of Ms. Daniels neighbors gave us refreshments and we were very thankful for that.

    

The Ward Villa Retirement Center was next on the agenda. One hundred and twenty seniors live in this retirement home. Trash was picked up around the block and their parking lot. Flowers were also planted in their patio. A block away for the retirement homes the Youth Action team also spruced up a neighboring church in their community.

By the end of the day the interns, the staff members and all other volunteers were tired but yet they accomplished something. They didn’t clean up a whole city but it’s not how much you do, it’s how you do it. By setting an example for everyone else, they expect one day this small community clean up to become larger and to further help other communities in the future.