2019 GEO Report

We have a greenhouse space that activities could occur in for inclement weather, but if the weather is at all good, we would likely be cleaning up outside in the garden spaces and surrounding area and building garden beds for next year.

Cleaning, book give away,

Participants will assist residents of Fair Acres Nursing Home so they can participate in recreational activities (as selected by the nursing home staff).

This event honors the life and accomplishments of Dr. King and his commitment to equality, social justice, advancement, and opportunity for all.

Clean up after MLK Day of Service at 1:30 PM @ St. Paul’s Baptist Church.

Volunteers will donate, sort and package literacy items for children in homeless shelters and teachers in a local school.
Items to collected and packaged include paper, pens, pencils, crayons, coloring books, notebooks, book bags and K-6 reading books.

Children and teens will participate in several arts projects including One King Day book, musical storytelling and decorating bags for personal care, literacy and keep it warm packs. Teens will also participate in a college career activity.

We will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in partnership with One Village Alliance in order to create a family-friendly event focusing on civic engagement, social justice, and the arts.

Students from Hill-Freedman World Academy's IB Program will be designing and implementing service projects to help improve their school community. These include: beautification of the inside and outside of the school, painting, cleaning, organization.

Indoor cleanup and paint refreshing, outdoor cleanup, trash/leaf removal, outdoor planter boxes to be built and painted. Olney Eagles Youth Organization is assisting with cleanups. Community volunteers will be creating the planter boxes.

Students and staff of the The Curtis institute of music will be working at George Washington high school; cleaning up, painting, ect. inside and outside of the school.

American Cross Blood Drive

The PTOs of all 5 schools are providing supplies so that we can complete hands-on service activities: Pediatric Activity Kits/Bryn Mawr Hospital

The PTOs of all 5 schools are providing supplies so that we can complete hands-on service activities:Valentine's for deployed PA based soldiers/Keystone Soldiers org;

The PTOs of all 5 schools are providing supplies so that we can complete hands on service activities: ; Blizzard Bag for homebound persons;

The PTOs of all 5 schools are providing supplies so that we can complete hands on service activities: Lunch bags for homeless youth

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General audience

Penn State Brandywine student organizations will be running various family-friendly service activities. We will be honoring Dr. King's legacy through projects that focus on kindness, inclusion and advocacy. Volunteers will have the opportunity to engage in service opportunities such as writing cards to our military members overseas

Penn State Brandywine student organizations will be running various family-friendly service activities. We will be honoring Dr. King's legacy through projects that focus on kindness, inclusion and advocacy. Volunteers will have the opportunity to engage in service opportunities such as organizing toiletry kits for women's shelters.

The first half of this service project will introduce volunteers to some key historical sites in West Philadelphia, providing an education on their significance. Volunteers will also learn about the trees located at these sites by name, historical significance and characteristics. We will walk to clean up a nearby historical site and learn about the historical markers throughout West Philadelphia.

Volunteers, students, and families will write letters of encouragement to accompany the toiletry bags that are being given to the homeless.

George Washington will undergo a “ beautification  intervention” through a community service project and supported by volunteers. Following a needs assessment from students, teachers and staff, George Washington High School will support projects in the school around creating a brighter, more inviting learning environment for our students while also supporting GWHS' goals as a community school through help setting up our school food pantry, clothing closet and community garden.

Each house of worship does a a thirty-minute service with a message about their faith, traditions and beliefs, followed by fellowship meal or refreshments. This is the first time this House of worship is participating in Unity Week.

Each house of worship does a a thirty-minute service with a message about their faith, traditions and beliefs, followed by fellowship meal or refreshments.

Each house of worship does a a thirty-minute service with a message about their faith, traditions and beliefs, followed by fellowship meal or refreshments.