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This
student-run program is designed to match volunteers with service
opportunities in the Hays area. Sponsored by the Student Government
Association, the Center for Civic Leadership, and the Office
of Student Affairs, Tigers in Service is a clearinghouse for
students with a desire to participate in community service
activities. |
National Youth Service Day (2007)
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."
James M. Barrie
Saturday, April 21 marked the fourth consecutive year for FHSU Tigers In Service volunteers to participate in National Youth Service Day, which is the largest service event around the world. Here in the Hays, KS area, there were plenty of events for nearly 100 local volunteers to contribute their services to the global effort.
To start off the busy day, at 9:30 a.m. volunteers traveled in university vans to Ellis, KS to help work on the first ever Habitat for Humanity house in Ellis County. The students mortared holes in the foundation of the basement, picked up limestone rocks, and cleaned up around the area. |
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Also in the morning, student volunteers along with three faculty members from the FHSU Leadership Studies department, worked together to clear out trash in a potential site of a future outdoor classroom to be used by FHSU students and students K-12 for educational purposes northwest of the museum. Volunteers found everything from fast food wrappers and plastic bottles to large broken toys and old plastic swimming pools that littered the area. |
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At noon, all the morning volunteers and the volunteers for the afternoon activities came together to enjoy a nice barbecue in the Quad sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and PepsiCo. Hamburgers were cooked by technology studies volunteers, and chips, water, and pop were provided for volunteers. |
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The annual neighborhood, Big Creek, and campus clean-up began at 1 p.m. following the barbecue. Volunteers were divided into groups and picked up trash in and around Big Creek, 5th, 6th and 7th street alleys, and campus. About half of the volunteers at this year’s clean-up separated recyclables as they cleaned up the area, and about half of the 35 bags of trash collected were recycled.
Also at 1 p.m., a second group of Habitat for Humanity volunteers headed back to Ellis to finish putting tar on the basement and providing other services for the Habitat site. All NYSD volunteers received a t-shirt courtesy of the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Center for Civic Leadership (CCL). |
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