Students and employees picked up trash on Newton Campus as part of the MLK Day of Service.
GPC alumnus Markus Gaffney, center, gives directions to students working at the Atlanta Veterans Farmers Market. (photo by Bill Roa)
GPC student Teresa Bundy collects dirt to be used in garden plots that will be worked by veterans at the Atlanta Veterans Farmers Market. (photo by Bill Roa)
GPC volunteers work for others on MLK Day
A number of Georgia Perimeter students, faculty and staff made their MLK holiday from work a day on rather than a day off.
They volunteered, through GPC’s Quality Enhancement Performance Plan office, for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. The event, “Be a Service Superhero,” is part of a national movement that designates the MLK holiday a day of service.
The GPC volunteers worked at service sites throughout metro Atlanta. They included the Atlanta Veterans Farmers Market, the Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Stone Mountain Park, Mountain View Personal Care Home, the Special Equestrians of Georgia, Snap-2-It, plus sites in the Clarkston and Newton County communities. In addition, a clean-up was held on GPC’s Newton Campus, while other volunteers worked in the Decatur Campus community garden.
Read a story on the volunteer efforts in the CrossRoads News.