South Jersey Service 2023

Thursday, March 30 For our last trip, we went down to the ReStore warehouse in Maple Shade, where we were welcomed by a staff member named George. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that uses its profits to build homes and give people the opportunity to afford decent housing. When we arrived at...

On our fourth day of Intensive Learning, the South Jersey Service Group was at Urban Promise in Camden. First, we worked on cleaning the perimeter and getting rid of trash lying around nearby. Then a group brought items like chairs to the art room at another building. Before lunch started some of us picked...

Today, we started off by heading to the playscape to do some landscaping work. We got to spend time raking leaves and pulling weeds to make the playscape cleaner. After we finished cleaning, we got to play with the preschoolers and Prekindergarten kids on our newly cleaned playscape. Lots of the kids pitched in...

For our second day of South Jersey Service, we walked down Main Street to the Perkins Center for Arts. We were welcomed by Kahra Buss, the executive director of the Perkins Center, who taught us about the historical importance of the building. Initially owned by Dudley and Alice Sullivan Perkins, the building was eventually...

We started off the morning by making placemats and centerpieces for Cathedral Kitchen. We used construction paper and markers to decorate over 100 placemats to donate. In addition, some students read to kindergarteners, while others played on the playscape. Later in the morning, the group met up in Ms. Jefferson’s second-grade classroom to revise...