Can you help? The Community Service program depends on gracious volunteer drivers to get students to and from their weekly, off-campus service sites. Parents have been a tremendous help in making volunteer work possible for over 250 dedicated students each year.
Students volunteer at area public elementary schools, day care centers, elder centers, residences for the disabled, and the local animal shelter, where their assistance is always much appreciated. Drivers over the years have enjoyed getting to know students as they share in the funny or challenging anecdotes of each week’s service trip. Some have made it an opportunity to spend time with their own children and friends, while others have even been drawn out of the car to join in the service work.
If you’re interested in helping our student volunteers in this way, please contact Andrea Geyling-Moore, director of the Community Service program, at community_service@milton.edu or 617-898-2320 by Monday, September 14 (though we welcome your help at any time of the year!) Most round trips from campus take between 20–30 minutes. If you can drive a group to the site and pick them up as well, we’d be most grateful. With time in between (for errands or joining in service) the total weekly time commitment would span between 1–2 hours. If you’d rather help on occasional weekends, as a weekday substitute, or on a weekly basis later in the year, please let us know.
For more details, visit the Community Service Program page. Students can see what opportunities will be available in the coming year—both one-time events, and descriptions of our weekly service sites. You’ll find information about the spring break service trip to Belize scheduled for the first week of school break, March 11–20, 2016. We hope that this early posting will give families time to plan schedules and budgets. (Deposits will be due soon after Parents, Weekend in October.) To give you a flavor of this special week-long opportunity, please view the CS website slideshow of photos from Milton Academy’s past trips to Belize.
