On Make A Difference Day volunteers all over the state sacrificed their time to make their community and state a better place.
Projects on Make a Difference Day, which fell on Oct. 23, included reading to children, painting classrooms, cleaning school grounds and collecting food for school children to take home.
For this national day of service and remembrance, the North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service worked with 27 Local Education Agencies.
On this day of service, we had great participation from volunteers including the Office of the Governor’s regional directors: Budd Berro in the Piedmont, Juleigh Sitton in the west and Tate Johnson in the east.
At Hall Fletch Elementary School in Asheville, volunteers created a teaching garden that the students can learn from, and care for, year round. At New Bern High School in New Bern, students volunteered at the local food bank loading trucks of food. At Shepherd Elementary School in Mooresville, nearly 508 students and 23 teachers participated in a land beautification project clearing debris from playgrounds, modifying a curb entrance for students with disabilities and building a butterfly garden.
This is just an example of what took place on Make A Difference Day and we are proud and grateful to all of the volunteers who participated and made this day a success.
To learn more about the Make A Difference Day projects that took place across our state please visit makeadifferenceday.nc.gov.